Physical geography The region is mainly mountainous, with steep slopes often plunging into the sea.

Streaks are common across Mars and new ones appear frequently on steep slopes of craters, troughs, and valleys.

Coffee and tea are the major cash crops for export, with the high altitudes, steep slopes and volcanic soils providing favourable conditions.

The village is located above sea level in the High Sele Valley, in a hilly area on the eastern side of the Picentini Mountains, at the foot of the steep slopes of Mount Boschetiello.

Right on the slopes of the Koariti.

However, some scenes on the slopes of Mount Doom were filmed on the slopes of Ruapehu.

The lake is completely surrounded by mountains.

The Jura Mountains are an example of fold mountains.

So they suffered defeat in the Battle of Uhud.

This tree grows on the slopes of the Andes, mainly in Peru.

Those that drain toward the Pacific Ocean are steep and short, flowing only intermittently.

The Arroux rises on the dip slope of the escarpment at the southern end of the department.

This is a friction climb, up in Tuolumne Meadows, in the Yosemite high country.

Look at the world. You don't see equations carved on to the mountainsides.

Geography Kaysersberg lies north west of Colmar, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.

Because of the different adiabatic lapse rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than at the same height on the windward slopes.

Most of the islands are steep, with unstable soils and little permanent fresh water.

And as you come around the banks in these valleys, the forces can get up to two Gs.

The Ouche rises on the dip slope of the escarpment and flows to the Saône via Dijon.

Reports stated that some of the English dead were still being found on the hillside years later.

The first houses of Angra were built on the hillside above the cove, the steep streets winding down to the shore.

It results from the adiabatic warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes.

The Ōmine Range is in the center of the Kii Mountains, running North to South, with steep valleys on both sides.

Off road vehicles perform better in rough environments, while racing cars perform better on tracks or on the street.

Tributaries of the Amazon River are longer, have a much larger flow, and are less steep once they exit the sierra .

Much of the works of architecture pertaining to the pre Turkish period of the city and that reached our day date from this period.

These are situated either along the coastal strip in the protecting coves or on the slopes and hills of the mountain ranges.

The city is on a strip of coastal lowland and extends up the lower alpine slopes of the Chugach Mountains.

As a child, Earhart spent long hours playing with Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and belly slamming her sled downhill.

As in the beginning of the 20th century, emigration returned as an alternative to the hard life of the fields and agriculture.

The western coastline was formed by high cliffs, in which three small bays were cut several harbours were built in these bays, upon thin shelving land at the feet of steep hills.

It stands 40 metres above the Forum Romanum, looking down upon it on one side, and upon the Circus Maximus on the other.

The community was located on the slopes of Black Oak Ridge, from which the new town of Oak Ridge got its name.

In essence a specialized railroad system with steep drops and sharp curves, passengers sit and are restrained in cars, usually with two or more cars joined to form a train.

Deep and raw centuries old forests on the hillsides, bald ridges with roughened cliffs, rugged gorges, through which untamed mountain streams rolls.

The city is located in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges on the eastern and south western borders, respectively.

Some tombs were quarried out of existing limestone clefts, others behind slopes of scree, or were at the edge of rock spurs created by ancient flood channels.

In the city, the Atlantic Forest areas most preserved are the wellsprings, the tank of Paulista, the Ecological Park Santa Luzia and the slopes of Guaraciaba.

El Picacho Hill, a rugged mountain of moderate height, rises above the downtown area several neighborhoods, both upscale residential and lower income, are located on its slopes.

Garrigue shrublands occupy the non agricultural portions coastal plain and coastal escarpments, with Sarcopoterium spinosum , along with Asphodelus microcarpus and Artemisia herba alba , as the predominant species.

History Though it receives its waters from diverse river tributaries from the surrounding hillsides, among those that stand out is the river Rio dos Macacos (today channelized), which introduces salt water.

Farmers in the Jerusalem region thus built stone terraces along the slopes to hold back the soil, a feature still very much in evidence in the Jerusalem landscape.

The feathers of the flightless Velociraptor may have been used for display, for covering their nests while brooding, or for added speed and thrust when running up inclined slopes.

The hillsides were originally occupied by a lush Atlantic Forest, though already mixed with species of Araucaria and Planalto Paulista typical of altitude climate.

A couple years ago there was severe flooding that led to thousands of deaths that's directly attributable to the fact that there are no trees on the hills to stabilize the soil.