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- Island. This is the piece of land which is completely surrounded by water eg Madagasca island country, Australia continent island, Ukerewe district island in Mwanza Tanzania
- Cape. This is the piece of land jutting into the sea eg Cape of Good Hope in South Africa
- Peninsula. This is the tract of land entering into the body of water eg Msasani peninsula in Dar es salaam Tanzania
- Gulf. This is the water inlets the land eg Guinea gulf, Benguela gulf
- Strait. This is the narrow water path which separates one land mass from another eg Makasan strait inIndonesia
- Volcanic mountains§ Are mountains formed from the pilling up and cooling of hot molten lava and ashes that are thrown out from the interior of the earth. Examples of volcanic mountains are:-
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- Kilimanjaro, OldonyoLengai, and Meru
in Tanzania.
- Types of volcanic mountains
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Volcanic
mountains are classified into three types on the basis of their eruptions,
namely
- (i) Active
volcanic mountains
- (ii) Dormant/inactive/sleeping
volcanic mountains
- (iii) Extinct/dead
volcanic mountains
- Active volcanic mountains
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Are
volcanic mountains which are still experiencing periodic eruptions and have
erupted in recent periods. Examples of volcanic mountains include
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Mount Vesuvius in Italy,
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Mauna Loa in Hawaii
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Taal volcano in Philippines
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Mufumbiro in Uganda
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Sakurajima mountain in Japan
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Merapi mountain in Indonesia
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Nyiragongo mountain in Congo DR
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Cameroon mountain in Equatorial
Africa
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Piton de La Fournaise in reunion.
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Oldonyo Lengai in Tanzania
- Dormant volcanic
mountains
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Are those which erupted once in the past but
have remained in active for fairly a long period.
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They
are sleeping volcanic mountains which may become active once again. Examples of
dormant volcanic mountains are:-
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Kilimanjaro and Meru mountains in
Tanzania
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Keo mountain in Hawaii island
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Elbrus mountain in Russia
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Teide mountain in Spain
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Rainier mountain in USA
- Extinct/dead
volcanic mountains
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Are
those volcanic mountains which were active but have not erupted for a very long
time and do not show any sign of ever erupting again
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Most
these mountains have craters at their peaks, which are normally conical in
shape which when craters are filled with water they form crater lakes for
example lake Duluti and Ngorongoro both in Arusha Tanzania and lake Nakuru in Kenya. Examples of extinct
volcanic mountains include:-
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Elgon and Kulal mountains in Kenya
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Ngorongoro and Rungwe in Tanzania
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Chimborazo mountain Ecuador
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Ben Nevis mountain in Scotland
- Kilimanjaro, OldonyoLengai, and Meru
in Tanzania.
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