Uses of Fold Mountains (Andes)
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- Created on: 20-12-15 15:01
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- Uses of Fold Mountains (Andes)
- Mining
- Tin
- Silver
- Gold
- Nickel
- Open pit with rock loosened daily by dynamite blasts
- Rock then sprayed with cyanide
- Contaminate water supplies
- Rock then sprayed with cyanide
- Alternative source of jobs
- Lack of services
- Increased crime rate
- Used llamas
- HEP
- Steep slopes and narrow valleys
- Easily dammed
- Rapid flow of water due to relief
- Snow melts in spring so flow increases
- Amount of water varies
- Steep slopes and narrow valleys
- Farming
- Subsistence farming
- Food produced for farmer's own family
- Potatoes
- Llamas
- Carry materials into inaccessible and inhospitable areas
- For irrigation
- For buildings
- Females used for milk, meat and wool for clothes/ rugs
- Carry materials into inaccessible and inhospitable areas
- Lower valleys
- Cash crops
- Rice
- Cotton
- Soy beans
- Cash crops
- Subsistence farming
- Tourism
- Mountain peaks
- Volcanoes
- Glaciers
- Lakes
- How people settled in these areas long ago
- Inca trail
- Inca trail
- Good source of income
- Risk of industrialisation and pollution
- Mining
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