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MOUNTAINS BUILDING
By: Aisa Feratovic, Diany Rosa,
Eniyah Garner, Francesca
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FOLDED MOUNTAINS
The highest mountains in the world are made up of folded mountains
They form at convergent boundaries where continents have collided
Folded mountains form when rock layers squeeze together and push upward
Mt. Everest, the largest mountain in the world
FAULT-BLOCK MOUNTAINS
Fault-block mountains form when this tension causes large blocks of the earths crust to drop
down relative to other blocks.
Sometimes faulting makes mountains have sharp peaks.
A folded-block mountain forms at a convergent boundary.
VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS
Most of the worlds major volcanic mountains are located at convergent boundaries.
Volcanic mountains also form under the sea.
Sometimes these mountains can rise above the ocean surface to become islands.