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Mount Rushmore is located in Keystone, South Dakota in the Black Hills. Its address is 13000 SD-244, Keystone, SD, 57751. Its area is 1278.45 square acres, and the monument is 5,725 feet tall. The terrain is mountainous and surrounded by prairie. Mount Rushmore was the brainchild of Doane Robinson, a local historian, who came up with the idea in 1923 in order to promote tourism to South Dakota. The task of creating the monument was given to Gutzon Borglum, a famous Danish-American sculptor.…

Climbing Mt. Everest isn't easy . Many people have tried and have failed. Reaching a goal for some people becomes a lifelong journey. People are also leaving things that they don't want to carry down, on the mountain, so that it's looking like a big garbage pile. Climbing Mt. Everest would give a person a feeling of accomplishment and knowing that they did something not many other people in the world get to do or would be able to do. You have to be in shape physically and be as prepared as…

blast blew the mountains apart on the evening of April 10. The blast killed at least 10,000 islanders and destroyed the homes of 35,000 more. Before its eruption Mount Tambora was about 4,300 meters (14,000 feet) high. After the eruption ended, a caldera spanning some 6 km (3.7 miles) across remained. Many volcanologists regard the Mount Tambora eruption as the largest and most-destructive volcanic event in recorded history, expelling as much as 150 cubic km…

After many years of death, failure, and frustration, the majestic mountain had finally lost its reign of power. Many years ago, in 1953, two astonishing heroes summited the undefeated lifetaker, Mt. Everest. These two heroes are known as Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In the excerpt “On Top of the World” Mary Ann Fraser depicts the two’s great journeys and the obstacles that stood in their way. However, much has changed since the early pioneers had ventured into the unknown snow-kissed land.…

Young Heracles When the young Heracles was born, he was named Hunter Hercules Hoffman. He was born in New York City in 2001 and is now 15. He is in football, basketball, baseball, is in track, plays hockey, and also lacrosse At the end of the month Hunter is going to go to Greece. He gets to go to see Mt. Olympus, and something he doesn't expect. By this time he is in Greece he just stopped at what is supposed to be the start of Mt. Olympus. Then something drops in his hands. It was a knot…

Katelyne: Unit 1 Performance Task For many years and more to come, climbing Mount Everest has been such a great achievement for many climbers. Though, they may not always make it to the top, they are just happy that they got to witness the wonderful views and icy scenery. But, do they really? Are the views of the mountain breathtaking or garbage filled? To some climbers the scenery doesn’t matter, it just getting to the top that counts, but what about the mountain itself? As snow should always…

100 mph and nothing can stop this heated avalanche. Hornblende lava is found mostly deep under the ground and is created with water. Blocky Lava is from thick magma that traps gases in the volcano which causes it to explode. Scientist have gone to Mount Lassen to which is in Northern California, they take samples of the gases to discover the source of the water that creates lava. Testing gases from most of the volcanoes in the Ring of Fire, scientist have discovered that there is Carbon 12,…

where I can get extremely dangerous? Mount Everest is located on the border between Tibet and Nepal in Asia's Himalayan Mountains it is one of the most dangerous mountains to climb because of the high elevation. The height of Mount Everest is about 29,029 ft tall which can be dangerous for the climber. The climate where Mount Everest is located is extremely cold it is about -30 Degrees. There is a book called Peak and it is about a boy who went with his father to Mount everence and had the…

Help!The floor is lava! Being a kid did you ever imagine that the floor was hot, bubbly lava? Well did you ever realize that there is a place on Earth where the floor is actually made of lava? Sounds amazing does it not, well we could visit it we just need your approval. This astounding vista is called Lava Beds National Monument and we should visit it for many reasons. Ok class here you can see the amazing Fern Cave. One reason that we should visit this great wonder is that it will help…

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is in between the African Plate and South American Plate. It lies in between these two plates that are moving away from each other slowly. Although as a result of the separation of the two plates earthquakes occur and magma comes out making new crust. The magma comes out from a series of volcanoes that cool to make new crust. Crust closer to the rift is newer than the crust farther from the rift. The splitting of the African and South American Plate makes a divergent…