answer the following.
(h) Name the river that drains the lowlands.
(i) State the location of Western Cordilleras.
(j) Name the important ranges of Western Cordilleras,
(k) Name the most important mountain peak of
Western Cordilleras.
(l) Which is the most popular tourist attraction in
Western Cordilleras?
(m) What is meant by Pangaea?
(n) Who invented the Continental Drift Theory?
Answers
Answer:
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Explanation:
1). Guayas River, Spanish Río Guayas, river system of the coastal lowlands of Ecuador. Its eastern tributaries rise on the western slopes of the Andes and descend to drain the wet lowlands.
2). The North American Cordillera covers an extensive area of mountain ranges, intermontane basins, and plateaus in western North America, including much of the territory west of the Great Plains. It is also sometimes called the Western Cordillera, the Western Cordillera of North America, or the Pacific Cordillera.
3). The Western Cordilleras are a series of young fold mountain ranges which have many active and extinct volcanoes, earthquake-prone regions and hot springs. The Cordilleras consist of several parallel ranges such as the Alaska Range and the Brooks Range. The highest point in North America, Mt McKinley, lies here
4). Its highest point is Mount Kalatungan, a volcanic mountain with twin peaks: the first, the loftier, bears the name Kalatungan (2,860 m or 9,283 ft ASL); while the other peak is the slightly shorter Mount Wiji (2,819 or 9,249 ft), which to some is known as Mount Lumpanag, and to others Mount Makaupao.
5). One of its most popular attractions is the Columbia Icefield, which feeds eight glaciers. Suspended 900 feet (274 meters) in the air, the Icefield’s Glacier Skywalk has a glass observation platform with incredible views of glaciers, gorges, wildlife, fossils, and waterfalls.
6). Pangaea [ păn-jē ′ə ] A supercontinent made up of all the world's present landmasses joined together in the configuration they are thought to have had during the Permian and Triassic Periods.
7). Alfred Wegener
Continental drift was a revolutionary scientific theory developed in the years 1908-1912 by Alfred Wegener(1880-1930), a German meteorologist, climatologist, and geophysicist, that put forth the hypothesis that the continents had all originally been a part of one enormous landmass or supercontinent about 240 million years ago before breaking apart and drifting to their current locations.
Answer:
Explanation:
1). Guayas River, Spanish Río Guayas, river system of the coastal lowlands of Ecuador. Its eastern tributaries rise on the western slopes of the Andes and descend to drain the wet lowlands.
2). The North American Cordillera covers an extensive area of mountain ranges, intermontane basins, and plateaus in western North America, including much of the territory west of the Great Plains. It is also sometimes called the Western Cordillera, the Western Cordillera of North America, or the Pacific Cordillera.
3). The Western Cordilleras are a series of young fold mountain ranges which have many active and extinct volcanoes, earthquake-prone regions and hot springs. The Cordilleras consist of several parallel ranges such as the Alaska Range and the Brooks Range. The highest point in North America, Mt McKinley, lies here
4). Its highest point is Mount Kalatungan, a volcanic mountain with twin peaks: the first, the loftier, bears the name Kalatungan (2,860 m or 9,283 ft ASL); while the other peak is the slightly shorter Mount Wiji (2,819 or 9,249 ft), which to some is known as Mount Lumpanag, and to others Mount Makaupao.
5). One of its most popular attractions is the Columbia Icefield, which feeds eight glaciers. Suspended 900 feet (274 meters) in the air, the Icefield’s Glacier Skywalk has a glass observation platform with incredible views of glaciers, gorges, wildlife, fossils, and waterfalls.
6). Pangaea [ păn-jē ′ə ] A supercontinent made up of all the world's present landmasses joined together in the configuration they are thought to have had during the Permian and Triassic Periods.
7). Alfred Wegener
Continental drift was a revolutionary scientific theory developed in the years 1908-1912 by Alfred Wegener(1880-1930), a German meteorologist, climatologist, and geophysicist, that put forth the hypothesis that the continents had all originally been a part of one enormous landmass or supercontinent about 240 million years ago before breaking apart and drifting to their current locations.