name at least three of the major physicalgeographic features of the land in terms of mountians,plateus, dese?
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Plains, mountains, valleys, beach, escarpment, plateaus, prairie, continent, island, peninsula, delta, canyon, alluvial plain, etc.\n\nThese sites should help with more details..
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Pangea.\nI'm atheist, so I pretty much believe in what scientists publish.
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Maps of the world or large areas are often either 'political' or 'physical'. The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type or land use. Geological maps show not only the physical surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures.\n\nMaps that depict the surface of the Earth also use a projection, a way of translating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture. Perhaps the best-known world-map projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a form of nautical chart.\n\nAirplane pilots use aeronautical charts based on a Lambert conformal conic projection, in which a cone is laid over the section of the earth to be mapped. The cone intersects the sphere (the earth) at one or two parallels which are chosen as standard lines. This allows the pilots to plot a great-circle route approximation on a flat, two-dimensional chart.
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tectonic plates are giant pieces of the Earth's crust.  They "float" on the mantle, a layer of liquid rock under the crust.  The plates are constantly moving.  A mountain range is formed when two plates moving toward each other collide.  One plate will "run over" the other.  When this happens the top plate gets pushed up and the bottom pushed into the mantle.  The top plate will rise to form a mountain range.\n\nClimate and erosion give the mountain range its finished look (paint on the car).  The tectonic movement gives it its general shape.
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Mountains, bodies of water and seasonal tilt in the earths axis. That's the whole 9 yeards.
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The basic idea is that the earth's land mass was unified hundreds of millions of years ago, but has been gradually pulling apart since then.\nAnd large land masses are resting on huge plates. The plates bump against each other, and when one of them shifts,\nyou have an earthquake.\nThink of it like a jigsaw puzzle, but with continent-sized pieces.\n\nFor lots of pictures of plates, and faults, visit here:\nhttp://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
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Geocentric \nTeleological\nAnthropocentric
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I like this site for looking at where the continents were at different times as the forces of plate tectonics (continental drift) occured.\nhttp://www.scotese.com/earth.htm\n\n50MYA: http://www.scotese.com/newpage9.htm\n150MYA: http://www.scotese.com/late1.htm\n\nThey even project into the 250MY into the future:\nhttp://www.scotese.com/future2.htm\n\nThey also animate the movement of the plates:\nhttp://www.scotese.com/newpage13.htm
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Varied.  There are mountains, and there are sandy plains.  There are raging volcanos, and quiet deserts, fertile expanses, and deep unexplored crevices.
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Lithosphere (most)\nHydrosphere\nBiosphere\nAtmosphere (least)\n\nwould be my guess
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1. aa\n2. fissure\n3. vulcan\n4. tectonic\n5. pacific (also called the "pacific rim")
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That's a very broad question.  Here's a short summary that can be added to:\n1.  Deserts\n2.  Mountains\n3.  Valleys\n4.  Savannas\n5.  Islands\n6.  Atolls\n7.  Hills\n8.  Caverns\n9.  Outcrops\n10. Glaciers
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Here you go\n\nhttp://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/DigitalImagery/Maps/Asia-Physical/Asia1920Physical.jpg \n\nPlease give me the best answer, if this picture works out
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look up plate tectonics
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Types of plate movement:\nlateral (ie., San Andreas fault in CA) - side by side\nconvergent (ie.,Himalayan Mts.) - pushing together\ndivergent (ie., mid Atlantic Ridge) - pulling apart.\nCheck this site:\n\nhttp://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/joy/denali/DAuria/plate_mvmt.html
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Pangea was the supercontinet - 180 million years ago that is. It broke out into Laurasia [ North America (Greenland), Europe, and Asia] and Gondwanaland (Antarctica, Australia, South America and India's subcontinet) through plate tectonics.
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Mountains don't have any geographic functions because they are usually something thats formed when plates collide during tectonic movement or oceanic lithosphere is subducted undearneath continental lithosphere and magma boils to the surface. If you want to learn more about mountains, take an Earth Science class, or looking up plate tectonics online.