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Why is Mount Everest so tall? (Reason it's the highest (snow lines…
Why is Mount Everest so tall?
Comparison
Mauna Ker
tallest
base to summit
Mt.Everest
highest
altitude
Reason it's the highest
snow lines
high
glaciers small
near the tropics
drastic plates collide
Reason won't maintain forever
continental plate
Earth's climate
Planet's erosion power
continental plate
move 2-4 cm per year
two plates collide
buckling margins
uplifted
accompany the extra crusts
How it's came from
Indian plate
bump together
crust crumple
huge uplifted
Eurasian plate
what is weathering
air mass rise
air cools
water vapor forms
wears down landscape
dissolve rocks
break down any process
snow
Comparsion
Mt.Everest
towering
reason
glaciers small
Mt.Appalachian
comforting
reason
water and gravity wear down(weathering)
erosion overtakes uplifted