What is the longest mountain chain in the world?

世界上最长的山脉是哪座？

So you are embedded between these two mountain chains.

你就置身于这两条山脉之间。

What is the Earth's longest mountain chain above sea level?

球上海拔最高的山脉是什么？

There are also cliffs, mounds, ancient and quite dead volcanoes, even mountain chains!

月球上还有悬崖、丘陵、古老的死火山，甚至还有山脉链！

The Great Wall twists and turns along the tops of mountain chains in northern China.

长城蜿蜒盘旋在中北方的山脉山。

Volcanoes form the backbone of the longest mountain chain on our planet, the Andes of South America.

火山构成了球上最长山系的主干，南美洲的安第斯山脉。

In the high mountain chain that runs north of Mesopotamia a wild mountain tribe had long been living.

在耸立在美索不达米亚以北的高山山脉区，长期以来就生活着一个未开化的山民族。

Stretching thousands of miles along the west coast of South America, the Andes are the world's longest continental mountain chain.

沿着南美洲西海岸绵延数千英里，安第斯山脉是世界上最长的大陆山脉。

I meticulously noted these different depths, obtaining the underwater profile of this upside-down mountain chain that stretched beneath the sea.

小心记下这些不同的深度，这样，就获得了罗列在海水下面的这条冰山脉的海底面影。

For one, the Rocky Mountains aren't the only mountain chain on the continent that block moisture blowing in from the Pacific.

首先，落基山脉并不是大陆上唯一阻挡来自太平洋的湿气的山脉。

Eruptions have rifted continents, raised mountain chains, constructed islands and shaped the topography of the earth.

火山喷发撕裂了大陆，抬高了山脉，筑起了岛屿并且形成了各种貌。

Up until this point, the land in that area just wasn't as tectonically active as the rest of the mountain chain.

在此之前，该区的土并不像山脉的其他部分那样构造活跃。

Both of these states are also mountainous states with the same rocky mountain chain running through each of them, so they have very similar geographies.

这两个州都是多山的州，同样的岩石山脉贯穿其中，所以它们的理位置非常相似。

These vents form along mid-ocean ridges, where Earth's tectonic plates are splitting apart, and lava rises up through the gap, then hardens into long underwater mountain chains.

这些喷口沿着大洋中脊形成，在那里球的构造板块分裂，熔岩从缝隙中升起，然后硬化成长长的水下山脉。

Undersea Mountains: The Mid--Ocean Ridges Mid--ocean ridges, the longest mountain chains on Earth, are formed at divergent plate boundaries where two oceanic plates move apart.

海底山脉：大洋中脊 大洋中脊是球上最长的山脉，形成于两个大洋板块分开的不同板块边界处。

No other mountain chain on this or any other of the continents that I have seen is so rich as the Sierra in bold, striking, well-preserved glacial monuments.

在这个大陆或所见过的任何其他大陆上， 没有任何其他山脉像塞拉利昂那样拥有大胆、引注目、保存完好的冰川遗迹。

How have they been distributed from continent to continent, across seas and deserts and mountain chains, usually so influential in determining boundaries of species both of plants and animals.

它们如何从一个大陆分布到另一个大陆， 跨越海洋、沙漠和山脉， 通常对确定植物和动物的物种边界具有如此大的影响。