This week we continue with mountain formations focusing on folded mountains and fault-block mountains.
How do these types of mountains form?
Where do they form?
This week's contract has us inventing a lab or activity that demonstrates the build up or wear down of mountains. Try to make it something that all the class can replicate.
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mr. hoopman have you ever been to a folded mountain.
I have been through the Rockies.
There are three types of mountains...
1.Folded mountain
2.fault-block mountain
3.volcano
A mountain is a piece of land that rises at a higher and steeper elevation than the land around it.
Most mountains belong to something called a ridge. A ridge is a line of many mountains built at around the same time, and made the same way.
The 2 mountains that are the most simular are the folded mountains and the fault-block mountains. A volcano is built totaly different and isnt normaly close to another volcano.
Both folded and fault-block mountains form over millions of years. A folded mountain forms where the continental crust is being compressed, and fault-block mountains form where it is being streched. A folded mountain is a mountain that forms as continental crust crumples and bends into folds. A fault-block mountain is a mountain that forms as blocks of rock move up or down along normal faults. The lithosphere is made out of cool hard rock, so when the plates move apart and strech the crust, or the lithosphere, it breaks the rock. The rock breaks into lard pieces making a fault-block mountain.
Mr hoopman have u ever been to a mountain other then the Rockies
Jetzer
I suppose: the Alps, the Great Smokies in Appalacia...Dundee Mountain
can a mt. grow high to touch the atsmosphere
if a folded mountain "foldes" then does it nessisarily mean that the continent is getting smaller?
learned about mountains and how there formed.
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