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Mountains are a form of land that elevates dramatically above its surrounds, often with sharp angles, a small peak area, and a drastically wide base. While mountains are commonly believed to be bigger than hills, the word does not have a recognized geological definition. Individual mountains are quite uncommon. Found often in extended chains and ranges. When a collection of such chain is connected, a mountain belt is formed. Mountains cover around one-fifth of the total land area and at least one-tenth of the total world’s inhabitants live there.

A mountain belt ranges from a couple of hundreds of kilometers in width and thousands of kilometers in length. It is elevated above the flat lands near it, which can be seaside plains, such as those found along the northern Chile, or a plateau, such as those found inside and along the Tibetan Plateau area in southwestern China. Ridges link separate mountains while valleys divide them. Numerous mountain belts feature plateaus (flat lands), which are high but provide little help for the people who live there. Like, the Andes Mountains form a belt that runs the length of the almost entire South America’s western coast; it contains both isolated ranges, such as the Cordillera Blanca Range, that include Peru’s highest peak, Huascaran. And some high plateau (Flat Lands), the Altiplano, in western Bolivia and southern Peru.

Mountains are often measured in terms of elevation above sea level. Olympus Mons, situated on Mars, is the solar system’s highest known peak. All mountainous ecosystems have one significant feature: rapid variations in height, temperature, soil, and flora over very short distances. Plants found on mountains usually consist of oak, Conifers, chestnut, junipers, maple, campions, stonecrops, ferns, mosses , and climbers. The Himalayas are home to the world’s fourteen tallest mountains. Rivers are perennially frozen in certain highland places These are referred to as glaciers.