The Most and Least Religious Countries. FEN Learning is part of Sandbox Networks, a digital learning company that operates education services and products for the 21st century. Everest 1. K2 Godwin Austen. Nanga Parbat. Nanda Devi. Hindu Kush. Minya Konka Gongga Shan. Ismail Samani Peak formerly Communism Peak. The rest are technically either a massif or a volcano or a dome in one instance. The highest mountains on each continent are considered to be part of the Seven Summits. Mountaineer Richard Bass was the first to scale all seven summits in —and the year old did so in only one year.
Among these impressive peaks, two are technically volcanoes— Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and Mount Elbrus in Russia.
The highest mountains in the world are all in Asia, with nine of the ten highest found in the Himalayan range. Many of their names are derived from Sino-Tibetan languages , and some have mythological or religious influences.
The highest peaks in this region are scattered across three countries, with five volcanoes, four mountains, and one massif. Denali in Alaska, U. Traveling to the southernmost tip of the Earth, you might be surprised to learn that volcanoes even exist in Antarctica.
Mount Sidley is the highest, dormant, snow-covered volcano found here. The only dome on the entire highest mountains list is Dome Argus 13, ft or 4, m. The remaining mountains here are named for scientists and supporters of various Antarctic expeditions. New planets are also being discovered every year, presenting further possibilities. Conventional cartographic techniques have caused many to have a skewed perception of the true size of countries.
Can an equal-area map provide clarity? Maps shape our understanding of the world—and in an increasingly interconnected and global economy, this geographic knowledge is more important than ever. Unfortunately, billions of people around the world have a skewed perception of the true size of countries thanks to a cartographic technique called the Mercator projection.
In , the great cartographer, Gerardus Mercator, created a revolutionary new map based on a cylindrical projection. The new map was well-suited to nautical navigation since every line on the sphere is a constant course, or loxodrome. In modern times, this is particularly useful since the Earth can be depicted in a seamless way in online mapping applications.
That said, in this projection style, the sizes of landmasses become increasingly distorted the further away from the equator they get. Canada is the second largest country in the world, but not by much.
Africa, South Asia, and South America all appear much smaller in relation to countries further from the equator. And from a North American perspective, countries such as Australia and Indonesia appear much smaller than they actually are.
Comparing the landmasses on the same latitude as Canada helps put sizes into perspective. In reality, Greenland is about fourteen times smaller than Africa.
Critics of the map—and similar projections—suggest that distortion reinforces a sense of colonialist superiority. As well, the amount of territory a country occupies is often correlated with power and access to natural resources, and map distortions can have the effect of inadvertently diminishing nations closer to the equator.
In our society we unconsciously equate size with importance and even power. Growing awareness of map distortion is translating into concrete change. Boston public schools, for example, recently switched to the Gall-Peters projection , which more accurately depicts the true size of landmasses.
As well, Google, whose map app is used by approximately one billion people per month, took the bold step of using different projections for different purposes in The Earth is depicted as a globe at further zoom levels, sidestepping map projection issues completely and displaying the world as it actually is: round.
Despite this, the volcano has stayed dormant for a long time now, having last erupted 46, years ago. Join the ZME newsletter for amazing science news, features, and exclusive scoops. More than 40, subscribers can't be wrong. The extremely dry and almost cloud-free conditions also help, making it an ideal spot from which to make astronomical observations.
Our planet is not a perfect sphere. It is an oblate spheroid — it looks kind of like a beach ball that someone sat on. The Earth bulges outward at the equator and flattens near the poles, so people in countries like Ecuador, Kenya, Tanzania, and Indonesia can up to 13 miles closer to the moon than people living on the North or South poles.
Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador — an inactive volcano in the Andes — has an altitude of only 6, meters 20, feet , which is way less than Mt. It is the closest point to the Sun on Earth.
Despite not being as difficult to climb as Mt. Everest, it has its challenges.
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