Geography
- ISBN-10
- 1508103542
- ISBN-13
- 9781508103547
- Series
- Geography
- Category
- Electronic books
- Pages
- 119
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-12-09
- Publisher
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Author
- Jason Shattuck
Description
An entertaining and useful memory tool, this kind of vertical exaggeration nevertheless gives a misleading sense of elevation, since Earth's diameter is nearly 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers) while mountains rise less than 5.5 miles (9 ...
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