Mountain Environments 1

An Introduction

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What is the return period or recurrence interval?
the frequency of an event of a given magnitude.
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what is the equatorial radius of the Earth?
6400 km
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What is the circumference of the Earth?
40,000 km
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How old is the Earth?
4.5 ba
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How old are the oldest known rocks and fossils?
3.8 ba
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How much iron is in the Earth's composition?
34.6 %
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How much oxygen is there in the Earth's composition?
29.5 %
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How much magnesium is there in the Earth's composition?
12.7 %
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How much nitrogen is there in the atmosphere?
77 %
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How much oxygen is there in the Earth's atmosphere?
21 %
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What is the Earth's surface area of ocean?
71 %
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What is the Earth's surface area of land?
29 %
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What is the mean surface temp on Earth?
+ 14 degrees celsius
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Without greenhouse gases surface temperature on Earth would be?
-21 degrees celsius
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Land surface elevation varies between how much?
-12 km to +9 km
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What does hypsometry mean?
The different distribution of different elevations on Earth.
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At what height are the two biomodal peaks of the Earth's hypsometry?
-4 km and +1 km
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What elevation does continental surface range between?
+8.8 km and -0.2 km
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What does the ocean base range between?
-0.2 km to 11 km
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What is the mean of the ocean base ranges?
-3.7 km
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How old is continental crust?
3800 Ma
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How thick is continental crust?
30-40 km
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How dense is continental crust?
Low density
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How old is oceanic crust?
~200 Ma
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how thick is oceanic crust?
6-11km
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What do crustal plates float on?
Athenosphere
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How are crustal plates driven?
convection
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An example of a divergent plate boundary is?
The African Rift Valley
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Give an example of a transform boundary?
San Andreas Fault
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Give an example of a convergent plate boundary?
Himalyayas
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