Mountains and the Weather
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Geography
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5th - 6th Grade
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Marcus Cheong
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Mountains and the Weather
Chapter 2
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But why does it get colder as we head higher up a mountain?
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So, why is it colder?
The core of the earth is hot
Further away from the core of the earth
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Snowline
If you climb high enough, you will eventually reach the snowline.
Above this line, it is so cold that snow covers the ground even in summer!
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The average temperature of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is about 24°C to 34°C.
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The temperature of freezing ice is 0°C.
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Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire, USA
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Temperature of Mount Everest
The average temperature of Mount Everest is around -18°C to -36°C
The coldest recorded temperature ever recorded is -42°C
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World Map
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Why is it so cold on Mount Everest?
High altitudes
Lack of human bodies
Strong wind
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Facts about Mount Everest
Dead bodies are common
Tweeting from Mount Everest
Growing 40cm per century
Many different records had been set
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Random Records
First confirmed ascent: 1953 - Edmund Hillary, NZ, and Sherpa Tenzing
First American to summit: James Whittaker, 1963
First female ascent: 1975 - Junko Tabei (Japan)
First summit without bottled oxygen: 1978 - Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria), in May, 1978.
Oldest male summit climber: 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura from Japan in 2013.
Oldest female summit climber: Tamae Watanabe, 73, from Japan in 2012.
Youngest summit climbers: Jordan Romero (US, male, 13 in 2010)
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Random Records
First couple married at the summit: Pem Dorjee Sherpa and Moni Mulepati on May 30, 2005.
First to summit after breaking three vertebrae: Bear Grylls, most famous celebrity summiteer.
First Olympic torch: May 8, 2008, before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
First tweet: sent by Kenton Cool in 2011 - "Everest summit no 9! 1st tweet from the top of the world thanks to a weak 3G signal”
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What is a rain shadow?
The upper parts of mountains are often covered in clouds.
Clouds are made up of tiny water droplets.
Mountains cause the clouds to rise so high that the droplets join together.
The bigger drops fall as rain or snow. Often the rain or snow falls on only one side of the mountain, which is called the windward side.
The leeward side, which receives much less rain or snow, is said to be in a rain shadow.
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Graphic of Rain Shadow
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Multiple Choice
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Gobi Desert, Mongolia
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Multiple Select
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Why are strawberry farms and tea plantations so popular in Cameron Highlands?
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Mountain Weather and Land Use
Amount of space
Amount of rain
Average temperature
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What Is Weathering?
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Have you ever seen paint doing this?
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Ice
Rocks have tiny cracks in them. When rain falls or dew forms, water gets in these cracks. If it gets very cold, water freezes to form ice.
When water turns to ice, it expands or gets bigger. The ice presses hard against the sides of the cracks and eventually pieces of rock break off and slide down the mountain
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Water
Rainwater is also a weak acid and it gradually dissolves rocks made of chalk and limestone.
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Changes in Temperature
In hot, dry places, the big difference in temperature between day and night weakens the rocks.
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Plant roots
Plant roots and grow into rocks and force the cracks open as the roots grow bigger.
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Scree
A scree is a mass of small loose stones that form or cover a slope on a mountain.
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Glaciers
Glaciers are slow-moving rivers of ice. When a glacier moves down a river valley, it wears away the rocks, making a deep U-shaped valley.
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Melting Glaciers
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