Especialidades JA/Montañas/Respuestas
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Some mountains are produced by the movement of lithospheric plates several miles down deep in the earth. Compressional forces in continental collisions may cause the compressed region to thicken, so the upper surface is forced upwards. Some mountains are volcanoes while others are shaped by glacial processes.
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Descripción | Montaña |
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Cordillera submarina que da la vuelta al mundo (Dorsal mediooceánica) | Aconcagua |
Las montañas más altas de cada continente (Siete Cumbres) | Monte Everest |
La montaña más alta de Sudamérica (Aconcagua) | Himalaya |
La montaña más alta de la tierra (Monte Everest) | Monte Mayón |
La cordillera más larga del mundo (Cordillera de los Andes) | Dorsal mediooceánica |
La montaña más alta de Japón (Monte Fuji) | Damavand |
El volcán más alto de Asia (Damavand) | Monte McKinley |
Los indios lo llaman Denali, «El más grande» (Monte McKinley) | Siete Cumbres |
La montaña conocida por su «cono perfecto» (Monte Mayón) | Cordillera de los Andes |
La cordillera con las montañas más altas de la tierra (Himalaya) | Monte Fuji |
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Mount Nebo (Arabic: جبل نيبو, Jabal Nibu. Hebrew: הַר נְבוֹ, Har Nevo, ) is an elevated ridge in Jordan, approximately 817 meters (2680 feet) above sea level, named in the Bible as the place where Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land that he would never enter and where Moses died. The view from the summit provides a panorama of the Holy Land and, to the north, a more limited one of the valley of the River Jordan. The West Bank city of Jericho is usually visible from the summit, as is Jerusalem on a very clear day.
""Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, 3 the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it. 5 And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. 6 He buried him[a] in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is."" Deut 34:1-6 NIV
According to 2 Maccabees 2:4–7, the Prophet Jeremiah hid the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant in a cave there. Maccabees is not accepted by Adventists (or most Protestants) as Holy Scripture but it is a historical document.
Planned attacks by Osama bin Laden in the 2000 millennium attack plots included bombing Mount Nebo on 1 January 2000.
The serpentine cross sculpture (the Brazen Serpent Monument) atop Mount Nebo was created by Italian artist Giovanni Fantoni. It is symbolic of the bronze serpent created by Moses in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4–9) and the cross upon which Jesus was crucified (John 3:14).
The remains of a church dating from the second half of the 4th century were found on the summit of Mt Nebo in 1933.
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Tip for earning from home during the pandemic | |
It may be possible to visit a mountain in your area if local restrictions allow and if social distancing protocols are followed during your outing. Otherwise, you will need to choose the option presented in 6b, as there are not available mountains in your area. |
A useful list of mountains in the USA and it's territories [1] and for Canada [2] can be found on Wikipedia. Bermuda has no mountains. See the next section for areas without mountains. Another good reason to visit a mountain might be to fulfill requirements for the Skiing Downhill Honor.
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Consider using this story to fulfill one of the required stories in the Christian Storytelling Honor.
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This will require some research for details, and is something that could be put in a blog post.
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Google Docs Presentation is a free alternative tool that is compatible with Powerpoint.
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An electronic way to fulfill this requirement would be a webpage(s) or blog post. Perhaps this could be sent out as a report in your church or school newsletter, or as part of a Pathfinder Club blog.
Meeting this requirement could do double duty for meeting the major project in the Scrapbooking honor.
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There are a number of places in the world with no mountains, though the exact definition of "what makes a mountain" drives the exact list. Using the 1000 ft from base standard:
- In Canada there are no true mountains in the Provinces of Saskatchewan or Prince Edward Island.
- In the United States these states lack any land over 1000 ft : Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. To this list you could add states that have no local elevation difference of more than 1,000 ft (called a prominence - a rise above the surrounding terrain): Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wisconsin. (17 total states without mountains)
- The highest elevation in Bermuda is 43m, which is definitely not a mountain!
- The highest point of the Netherlands is only 321m, and that spot is actually the three-country point with Belgium and Germany. As one Dutch person said "So, not only is it barely a hill, we managed to share the thing with two other countries!"
- Highest point in The Gambia is Red Rock (53 m or 175 ft), which is not very much of a hike.
- Kuwait is pretty flat, with the highest point in its desert terrain being Mutla Ridge (306 m or 1,004 ft)
- Guinea-Bissau is a fairly large country but its highest point is an unnamed location on only 300 m or 984 ft above sea level.
- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia lack mountains, with the hills reaching just over 1000 ft at best.
- An extreme example is The Maldives where the best view is found at 2.4 m or 7.9 ft above sea level. Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Spratly Islands, Tuvalu, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Tokelau, and the Marshall Islands all top out at or under 10 m high for natural land height.
This sortable list shows elevation extremes by country.
NOTE: It is not clear if you need to do one (as in a.) or all three of these things. Perhaps because you don't need to travel, doing all three would be most appropriate.
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This requirement could be done as part of requirement ii.
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Microsoft's Powerpoint is a popular program that allows incorporation of visuals, text, video, and audio. Google Docs Presentation is a free alternative tool that is compatible with Powerpoint.
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This could be the funnest part of the honor. There are many variations on this popular grade school science project. An example video is found here [3]. or search YouTube for alternative methods.
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Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
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How beautiful upon the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
“Your God reigns!”
Who proclaims peace,
Who brings glad tidings of good things,
Who proclaims salvation,
Who says to Zion,
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“For you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
The mountains and the hills
Shall break forth into singing before you,
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This could be a trivia style game patterned after Trivial Pursuit or Jeopardy! but the idea is to get creative and have fun!
Additional fun facts
Although Mount Everest is the point with the highest elevation above sea level on the Earth, it is not the summit that is farthest from the Earth's center. Because of the equatorial bulge, the summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Andes is the point on the Earth that is farthest from the center, and is about 2168 m farther from the Earth's center than the summit of Everest. The second farthest summit, Huascaran (also in the Andes), is only about 10 meters closer to the Earth's center.
Summit | Distance from Earth's center& | Elevation above sea level m | Latitude | Country |
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Chimborazo | 6384.4 km | 6267m | 1°28'9"S | Ecuador |
Huascaran | 6384.4 km | 6768 m | 9°7′17″S | Peru |
Yerupajá | 6384.3 km | 6655 m | 10°16′01″S | Peru |
Cotopaxi | 6,384.1 km | 5897 m | 0°40′50″S | Ecuador |
Huandoy | 6384.0 km | 6395 m | 9°01′38″S | Peru |
Kilimanjaro (Kibo Summit) | 6384.0 km | 5895 m | 3°4′33″S | Tanzania |
- ↑ Biegert, Mark. "The Farthest Mountaintops from the Center of the Earth". http://mathscinotes.com/2015/01/the-farthest-mountaintops-from-the-center-of-the-earth/. Retrieved 2015-06-10.