Wednesday 31 March 2010
Fish
Fish fossils are found on the top of mountains,
because some mountains was formed under water
therefore bringing fish out with it.
because some mountains was formed under water
therefore bringing fish out with it.
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Tuesday 16 March 2010
this is a fact file about mountains for my friends !!!!!!
EVEREST
*Age of Everest:
Everest was formed about 50 million years ago
*Elevation:
29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999
*Name in Nepal:
Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky)
*In Tibet:
Chomolungma: (means: mother goddess of the universe)
*Named after:
Sir George Everest in 1865, the British surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15
*Location:
Latitude 27° 59' N.....Longitude 86° 56' E. It's summit ridge separates Nepal and Tibet
*First Ascent:
May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route
*First Solo Ascent:
Aug. 20,1980, Reinhold Messner, IT, via the NE Ridge to North Face
*First winter Ascent:
Feb. 17,1980 -L.Cichy and K. Wielicki, POL
*Mt. Everest rises a few millimeters each year due to geological forces
*First Ascent by a Woman:
May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col
*First Oxygen less Ascent:
May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge.
*First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both north & south sides:
Cathy O'Dowd (S.A.) South May 25,1996/North '99
*Fastest Ascent from South:
Pemba Dorjee Sherpa, Nepal-8 hours and 10 minutes May 21st 2004
*Fastest Ascent (north side):
Hans Kammerlander (IT) May, 24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp
*Youngest person:
Ming Kipa Sherpa (Nepal)-15 years old-in May, 2003
EVEREST
*Age of Everest:
Everest was formed about 50 million years ago
*Elevation:
29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999
*Name in Nepal:
Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky)
*In Tibet:
Chomolungma: (means: mother goddess of the universe)
*Named after:
Sir George Everest in 1865, the British surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15
*Location:
Latitude 27° 59' N.....Longitude 86° 56' E. It's summit ridge separates Nepal and Tibet
*First Ascent:
May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route
*First Solo Ascent:
Aug. 20,1980, Reinhold Messner, IT, via the NE Ridge to North Face
*First winter Ascent:
Feb. 17,1980 -L.Cichy and K. Wielicki, POL
*Mt. Everest rises a few millimeters each year due to geological forces
*First Ascent by a Woman:
May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col
*First Oxygen less Ascent:
May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge.
*First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both north & south sides:
Cathy O'Dowd (S.A.) South May 25,1996/North '99
*Fastest Ascent from South:
Pemba Dorjee Sherpa, Nepal-8 hours and 10 minutes May 21st 2004
*Fastest Ascent (north side):
Hans Kammerlander (IT) May, 24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp
*Youngest person:
Ming Kipa Sherpa (Nepal)-15 years old-in May, 2003
In this diagram I will tell you how a mountain is formed:
Here are some of the ways that mountains form:
Two plates can press against each other until the land is lifted and folded over itself.
Folded mountains of the Tibetan Plateau (photo by Alton Byers)
One plate can push on top of another one. As one plate slides downward into the earth, it begins to melt. The melted rock rushes upward along cracks and weak spots, bursting out as fiery volcanoes. You can see a huge “ring of fire” where volcanoes circle the Pacific Ocean.
Here are some of the ways that mountains form:
Two plates can press against each other until the land is lifted and folded over itself.
Folded mountains of the Tibetan Plateau (photo by Alton Byers)
One plate can push on top of another one. As one plate slides downward into the earth, it begins to melt. The melted rock rushes upward along cracks and weak spots, bursting out as fiery volcanoes. You can see a huge “ring of fire” where volcanoes circle the Pacific Ocean.
Tuesday 2 March 2010
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