Question

a) i) Explain the formation of plains.
ii) Make a list of distribution of plains.
b) Write any four significance of mountains.
c) Give two examples of young fold mountains.​

Answer 1

Answer:

• Plains occur as lowlands along the bottoms of valleys or on the doorsteps of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands. Plains may have been formed from flowing lava, deposited by water, ice, wind, orformed by erosion by these agents from hills and mountains.
• Mountain biodiversity plays a key role in the support of global environmental, economic, social and cultural sectors through connections to; invasive species, air pollution, climate change, mining, hydropower, tourism, forests, agriculture
• The Himalayas, the Andes and the Rockies mountains are some examples of young fold mountains.