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Mountains absorb pressure?

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Do contiental mountains absorb the pressure of the colliding plates?

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  1. No, mountains FORM as a result of the colliding plates.


  2. Occasionally, as a plate sinks into Earth's mantle, it drags along a continent or a smaller land mass. Continental crust is too thick and light to sink. Instead, it collides with the opposing plate. If the opposing plate is also a continent, neither plate will sink. This type of collision often forms a vast mountain chain in the middle of a continent. The Himalaya were formed in such a way from the collision of two plates of continental crust.  

  3. No they move upwards to relive the pressure that is why there are mountains!!!!!

  4. Global climate refers to the average weather of the entire earth over long periods of time (between 20 or 30 years). Climate is affected by the same processes as those in weather, but the time over which data are gathered is much greater. As a result, climate patterns have been identified, and there are attempts to correlate them with some process or change. The depletion of the ozone layer and the suggested climatic effects is one example of such a correlation. The heat transfer processes associated with seasonal fluctuations in the amount of solar energy reaching a given place on Earth’s surface at a given time of year are caused by variations in the angle (inclination) of the sun’s rays and by length of daylight (rotation). Both of these effects are due to Earth’s inclination with respect to its orbital plane.

    On a small scale, atmospheric conditions such as cloud cover, dust loading, and physiographic features also contribute to heat differences. Clouds are very good absorbers of terrestrial radiation and are primarily responsible for maintaining Earth’s surface temperatures during the night. A thick cloud cover will absorb most terrestrial radiation, and a portion of this radiation is returned to Earth’s surface. It is not surprising that on clear, dry nights the surface cools considerably more than on cloudy humid evenings.

    Local conditions are affected, in some part, by the static features nearby. These features, such as mountains, oceans, and lakes, can modify the heat transfer process and the weather for that area. The specific heat of water, for example, provides large bodies of water with the ability to moderate climates of nearby land masses, since the water can exchange large amounts of heat with the air masses that pass over that land. Thus bodies of water form a buffer

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