what is the differnce (in feet) between the highest and lowest elevation points in the cintinental U.S.?
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Mt Whitney in California at 14,491 ft above sea level is the highest peak in the lower 48 states.  The lowest point is Death Valley, also in California, at a minus 300 ft below sea level. The difference then is 14,791 Ft.\n\nIf you consider Alaska then Mt Mckinley is the highest peak in North America at 20,320 ft above sea level and the difference is 20,620 ft
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at either of the poles. The least distance to travel
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A higher elevation means you are farther from the center of the earth. This means that you also travel a bit farther in the same 24 hour time period as somebody at sea level.  Thus, you cover more distance in the same amount of time and are traveling faster.
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The highest point in the world is Mount Everest at 29,028 feet above sea level, and the lowest point on land is the shore of the Dead Sea at 1,371 feet below sea level.  The lowest point on the Earth's crust, though, is the Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench, 35,840 feet below sea level, but located beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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A mountain is an elevation in the earth's surface. The elevation, or altitude, of a mountain is given as the height of the summit above sea level. Mountains are much bigger than hills. Most of the time they are made up elongated ranges. It is rare when a mountain stands alone.\n\nWhat is the difference between tallest and highest? Tallest: the top is the furthest away from the base. Highest: the top is the furthest away from sea level. There are three ways of measuring the height of a mountain. So which mountain is the tallest? One way to measure a mountain is by measuring from sea level. The second way is by measuring from base to peak. The third way is by measuring the distance from the center of the earth to the peak of the mountain.\n\nMt. Everest, on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Himalayas, is the highest mountain on earth. It is about 8,850 meters above sea level. height was confirmed in December 1983 during a surveillance mission by the space shuttle Columbia. Mauna Kea, or "White Mountain"a volcano of the "Big Island" of Hawaii, is the tallest mountain on earth. It measure about 10,200 meters from base to summit. Chimborazo is a volcano in the Andes of Ecuador. It measures about 6,310 meters above sea level. When height is measured from the center of the earth, Chimborazo is tallest since it is located nearly on the equator, where the earth bulges the most.
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The elevation of mount Everest has been recently revised — 29,035 feet (8850 meters), two meters or seven feet higher than the previously accepted figure.This was determined using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite equipment on the very top of Mount Everest last May by scientists supported by the National Geographic and Boston's Museum of Science.
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Contour lines on a map are set at even intervals.  The high points on a hill or mountain are rarely an exact number of feet.  The top would be represented by a point with the elevation next to it.
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New Mexico.\n\nMild winters, low popualtion, low cost of living.\n\nYou might wnat to play with this website.\n\nhttp://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html
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Lowest Point: The lowest point in China is Turpan Pendi (the Turpan Depression), 154 meters (505 feet) below sea level. It is located in northwestern China.
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Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the world's tallest mountain from base to peak! Its base is on the sea floor and it rises 33,480 feet (10,314 meters) in total, reaching 13,796 feet (4205 m) above sea level.
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Mount Everest. Its summit ridge marks the border between Nepal and China. The mountain is approximately 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high. \n\nThe mountain K2 comes in second at 8,611 m (28,251 feet) high.
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Yeah, Tahoe--193 square miles.  (The SALT lake is not freshwater...)  Flathead Lake in Montana claims to be the largest, but it's only 188 square miles.\n\nADDENDUM/EDIT: with all due love for Canada (and I do love it), 'west of the Mississippi" is conventionally used to mean the USA, esp. since the river itelf goes no farther than Minnesota.  Otherwise, the correct answer to, say, the highest mountain range east of the Mississippi would be the Andes.  Technically true, but probably not what's being asked.
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Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the world's tallest mountain from base to peak! Its base is on the sea floor and it rises 33,480 feet (10,314 meters) in total, while Mt. Everest which is located on the border between Nepal and China, not in India like the person "Student" said.  Mt. Everest from base to peak is 29,028 feet (8,848 meters). Mt. Mauna Kea beats Everest by 4,452 feet (1,466 meters). It's true that Mt. Everest reaches the highest, but it's not the tallest.
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A-Chimborazo, Ecuador's highest peak at 6310m also called as  "Woman in Ice" or "Icy Home of the Gods" or "Sacred Winds of the Moon" are some and nowadays it is  called the "Nation's Roof". \n\nB-if the Astronomical Unit is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles) and the speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second (or 1,079,252,848.8  km·h-1, which is approximately 186,282.397 miles per second, or 670,616,629.4 miles per hour).  0.14(?)\n\nC-10,000 volts to create a one-inch spark
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c) shows the elevation of the land.
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The Himalayas is a mountain range, not a mountain, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain, it is in the Himalayas.\nMount Everest is 8,844.43 metres high, in the center of the Himalayan Mountains on the border of Xizang (Tibet), China and Nepal. Mount Everest is the highest elevation in the world.
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McKinley aka Denali in Alaska is the highest in the 50 states.  Mt. Whitney in California is the highest in the lower 48.