What is the importance of deppest Mountain?
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Mountains play a significant role in providing water and food supply to the millions of people in the world. Mountains cover around 22 percent of the surface of the earth and 13 percent of the world’s population live in the mountains. Ninety percent of the world’s mountain inhabitants live in developing countries, where a huge population live under the poverty line, and one out of every three individuals experiences the danger of food insecurity.
Mountains offer 60-80 percent of the world’s freshwater. According to UNO, almost one billion people live in mountain areas, and over half of the human population depends on mountains for water and nutrition. Mountains are facing risk from climate change and natural calamities. Mountains face climate change as the global temperature continues to warm which disturbs starving and poorest people of the world who live in the mountains. Due to the increasing temperature, glaciers on the mountains start melting which brings floods in the world. Currently, 329 million people living in the mountains face food scarcity.
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Features:
soaring heights,
steep-sided peaks,
valley and glaciers
topography deeply cut by erosion,
river gorges,
series of elevational belts (or zones) that display different ecological associations of flora, fauna, and climate.
Importance:
they act as barriers and stop the chilling winds of north entering in to India
they stop monsoons from escaping from India.
the perennial rivers originate in the Dear Studentmalayas.
they cause rainfall in indo-gangetic plain.
they attract tourism and help the economy