MOUNTAINS
Areas of highland over 600m
What are mountains?
Raised areas of highlands between 200m and 600m above sea level.
What are hills?
Low areas of land located between two highlands
What is a valley?
Low lying areas, 0-200m and are often near the coast
What are plains?
The side of the mountains that face the wind
What is the windward side/
This mountain is located in Hanover
What is the Dolphin Head Mountain?
The hills found in the parish of St. Thomas
What is the Yallahs Hills?
This valley is located near Cold Spring in Hanover
What is the Great Valley?
This plain is located in the parish of What is St. Elizabeth
What is Pedro Plains?
A series or group or line of connected mountains
What is a mountain range?
Organisms live here in the mountains
What is a habitat?
This hill is found in the parish of Westmoreland
What is the Negril Hill
This valley is located in the parish of Portland
What is the Rio Grande Valley?
The Vere Plains is found in this parish
What is Clarendon?
Area in the mountain forest set aside to be protected by the government for conservation
What is forest reserve?
This mountain has a plateau where we find the parish capital Mandeville
What is the May Day Mountains?
This famous hill in Jamaica stretches across three different parishes
What is the Cockpit Country?
This valley is named after the parish of St. Thomas in which it is located
What is St. Thomas in the Vale
Georges Plain is found in this parish
What is Westmoreland?
Physical features in the landscape. Example mountains, hills plateau, valleys etc.
What are landforms?
The name of this mountain means Mount Devil
What is Mount Diablo?
This hill located in St. Andrew is actually a mountain
What is the Red Hills?
The Liguanea Valley is located in this parish
What is the parish of St. Andrew?
These two plains are located in the county of Cornwall
What are the Georges Plain and the Pedro Plains
The topmost part of a mountain, which is most times sharp, rugged and lack vegetation
What is summit or peak?