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Where are the major mountain
ranges located?
How many mountain ranges can you name?
Objectives
• All students must be able to name three
mountain ranges from around the world
• Most students should be able to explain how
plate movements lead to the formation of
mountains
• Some students could explain why we have
mountains in the UK despite being far from plate
boundaries
• STRIPE – Innovative learner - Use different
learning styles
Starter
• Complete a map from memory exercise to
find out where 10 of the world’s main
mountain ranges are located
• Work in groups of four, with one student
going to look at the main map at a time,
then adding whatever they can remember
to your outline map
• Swap maps and mark them – give one
mark for each range accurately located
and one for each range that is named
What is the relationship between
mountains and plate boundaries?
• You will be given a map showing the plate
boundaries
• Add the main mountain ranges to this map
• Describe the relationship shown on your map
What can you remember about
plate boundaries and volcanoes
from years 8 and 9?
What are fold mountains and how do they form?
Objectives
• All students must be able to name three
mountain ranges from around the world
• Most students should be able to explain how
plate movements lead to the formation of
mountains
• Some students could explain why we have
mountains in the UK despite being far from plate
boundaries
• STRIPE – Innovative learner - Use different
learning styles
How do fold mountains form?
• Look at page 45 in the black textbook to
find out how fold mountains form.
• Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVyBsUgD7Gk
• Working in groups, produce a revision
resource to explain this process – this
could be a worksheet, a poster, a minimovie, an annotated diagram etc.
Fold mountains in the Andes
• The Andes Mountains run
the length of the West
Coast of South America,
rising in the North in
Colombia and finishing in
Chile and Argentina in
the South.
• They are world's longest
mountain range running
for over 7,000km and
covering 6 countries.
How did the Andes form?
• The mountains have been formed as a result
of the convergence of the Nazca plate and
the South American plate.
• The heavier oceanic crust of the Nazca plate
is pushed towards the South American plate,
and because it is denser is subducted
underneath.
• The South American plate is less dense so
sits on top of this subduction zone, but the
rocks of the South American plate have been
folded upwards and crumpled into fold
mountains.
Andes facts and figures!
• There is a sequence of
volcanoes and fold
mountains, rising up to
6962m at Aconcagua.
• The trench (marking the
boundary between the
Nazca and South American
plates) to the West of the
Andes mountains is called
the Peru-Chile Trench, and
reaches an incredible
depth of 8066m under the
sea level.
Task
• Working in groups, produce a revision resource to
explain how fold mountains form in the Andes –
• VISUAL LEARNERS (IMAGES)– why not make a
poster, an annotated diagram or a series of
illustrations?
• VISUAL LEARNERS (WRITING) – why not write an
explanation of the process?
• AUDITORY LEARNERS – why not write a poem or
a rap and record it to share?
• KINAESTHETIC LEARNERS – why not make a
model or a series of models?
Sharing your ideas
• Each group should share their revision
resource with the class
• Your teacher may take photographs/video
of some pieces and will collect in hard
copies of work to put onto the shared area
for you to use when you revise
• Give feedback to each group – what have
they done well? What could they
improve?
• Do any team members deserve a merit for
their outstanding contribution to the task?
Reflection
• Why are there
mountains in Britain
when we aren’t on a
plate boundary?
• Have we been
innovative learners
today?