What's the difference between a mountain and a hill?

Question

If it's height,what's the threshhold that it turns from one to the other

Answer 1

Mountain has great hights and the hills are steeper.

Answer 2

The hills are alive with the sound of music.

Answer 3

a mountain is much bigger with a pointed top usually and a hill is a lot smaller with a round top.

Answer 4

It doesn't make much difference.  I live in Colorado and refer to the mountains as hills.  On the other hand, when I travel to other places and see the names Mount Blank, I wonder how they could ever come up with the thought that was a mountain.  I guess it is all in relationship as to what they saw when they lived somewhere else and it was called a mountain.

One way or the other, it's better than living in Kansas or west Texas.

Answer 5

...many years ago my teacher told it was 1000m....but i could not find any backing to tat statement....

...to me its in the name...

Answer 6

I found several sites and they all agree that there is no universally accepted definition between them.  The only notable differences that I saw is that a mountain has a summit and stands out from the surrounding terrain.

What's the difference between a hill and a mountain?

Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill although a mountain usually has an identifiable summit. In the United Kingdom, a mountain must be over 600 meters (1969 feet) or over 300 meters (984 feet) if it's an abrupt difference in the local topography. However, some hills can be called mountains and some mountains can be called hills - it's just a matter of the original name given to the relief.

A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area, with a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill, but there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill although a mountain usually has an identifiable summit. Mountains cover 64% of Asia, 36% of North America, 25% of Europe, 22% of South America, 17% of Australia, and 3% of Africa. As a whole, 24% of the Earth's land mass is mountainous. 10% of people live in mountainous regions. Most of the world's rivers are fed from mountain sources, and more than half of humanity depends on mountains for water.[1][2]

The British Ordnance Survey once defined a mountain as having 1,000 feet of elevation and less was a hill, but the distinction was abandoned sometime in the 1920's. There was even a movie with this as its theme in the late 1990's - The Englishman That Went Up a Hill and Down a Mountain. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names once stated that the difference between a hill and a mountain in the U.S. was 1,000 feet of local relief, but even this was abandoned in the early 1970's. Broad agreement on such questions is essentially impossible, which is why there are no official feature classification standards.

Answer 7

A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area, with a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill, but there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill although a mountain usually has an identifiable summit.

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. Hills often have a distinct summit, although in areas with scarp/dip topography a hill may refer to a particular section of scarp slope without a well-defined summit

In England and Wales the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has defined "mountain" (as a mass noun) as all land over 600 metres for the purposes of right to roam legislation.

In the United States, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names lists hundreds of landscape features under 1,000 feet (305 m) (some as low as 100 feet) named as "mountains."

Answer 8

a mountain is way bigger than a hill