What is a plateau?

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What is a plateau?

Answer 1

a plateau is flat-ow!

Answer 2

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.

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Answer 3

A plateau is a mountain or a hill with its summit chopped off neatly, creating a flat table.

Answer 4

PLATEAU

- tableland: a relatively flat highland

- A relatively elevated area of comparatively flat land which is commonly limited on at least one side by an abrupt descent to lower land. Sometimes called a table or tableland.

- A typically extensive land area, having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side.

Answer 5

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.

A highly eroded plateau is called a dissected plateau.

A volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic activity.

The largest and highest plateau in the world is the Tibetan Plateau, called the "roof of the world", which is still being formed by the collisions of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates.Tibetan plateau covers an area of some 2.5 million square kilometres which is approximately 5000m above sea level

Answer 6

It is also a term used in exercising or dieting to explain why someone is no longer losing weight, ie- I think I have plateaued. I will have to bump up the cardio during my workouts to burn the same amount of calories that I used to burn. Meaning your body levels out at a certain point and sometimes you have to jump start your metabolism.

Answer 7

An area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.

Answer 8

1. a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.

2. a period or state of little or no growth or decline: to reach a plateau in one's career.

3. Psychology. a period of little or no apparent progress in an individual's learning, marked by an inability to increase speed, reduce number of errors, etc., and indicated by a horizontal stretch in a learning curve or graph.

4. a flat stand, as for a centerpiece, sometimes extending the full length of a table.

–verb (used without object)

5. to reach a state or level of little or no growth or decline, esp. to stop increasing or progressing; remain at a stable level of achievement; level off: After a period of uninterrupted growth, sales began to plateau.

–verb (used with object)

6. to cause to remain at a stable level, esp. to prevent from rising or progressing: Rising inflation plateaued sales income.

[Origin: 1785–95; < F; OF platel flat object, dim. of plat plate1]

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Answer 9

a plateau is a flat place which stands in a high relief;or in a high quote; for example the plateau of Tibet.or the plateau of Anadoll which is in Turkey.bye