Download 3 Types of Mountains

3 Types of Mountains
Instructions: Using a word document recreate the chart below.
Using the internet fill in the chart.
Type of
Mountain
How is this
Type of Mountain
formed
Fold Mountains
Fault block
Mountains
Volcanic
Mountains
Forms as continental
crust crumples and
bends in to folds.
Forms as oceanic plate
sinks under the edge of
the contients collide.
Mountains that form
as blocks of roch move
up or down along a
normal fault line.
Form as the
lithosphere is
streachted and pulled
apart by the forces
within earth.
Formed when molten
rock deep within the
earth errupts and piles
upon a surface. When
tha ash and the lava is
cools it build a cone of
rock. Rock and lava
pile on layer after
layer.
What type of plate
boundary would you Convergent
commonly find this
type of mountain
along
2 Characteristics of
this type of
mountain
Name two mountain
ranges that are
examples of each
type of mountain
They form the largest
mountain ranges in the
world.
They are the most
common type of
mountain.
Himalays
&
Andes
Transform
Or
Divergent
Convergent
Or
Divergent
Two types of block
mountains- lifted(two
steep sides exposing
both sides scarps) and
tilted(one gently
sloping side and one
steep side with an
exposed scarp)
A scarp is a long steep
or cliff.
Can form on land or in
water. Some of the
largest ones are on
divergent boundaries
which form the
midatlantic ridge.
Sierra Nevada
&
Harz Mts. (in
germany)
Mount St.
Helen
&
Mount Kea (in
Hawii)
The mid-ocean ridges
have big vocanic
mountains chains
throughout the Pacific
and Atlantic
Part Two
Instructions:
Using the mountain ranges listed as examples go to google earth and locate
the mountain range and try to get a picture of the mountain range and paste it
below.