Mountains!

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Mountains!

• Presentation by Ryan and Billy

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Types of Mountains

• Folded mountains
• Fault-block mountains
• Volcanic mountains
• Dome mountains
• Erosion mountains

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Mountain Vocabulary

• Fold mountain created where continental plates
  collide, thus forcing the crust to crumple and
  fold.
• Fault-block mountain is a mountain that forms
  from a block of crust that is pushed upward or
  downward along a fault.
• Volcano mountains created by magma that escaped
  from Earths interior, then it cools.

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Mountain Vocabulary (Cont.)

• Hot spots an area of the crust above a rising
  plume of magma, where volcanic material can erupt
  through a plate creating volcanic mountains.
• Dome mountains a dome-shaped mound that forms in
  Earths crust.

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Tall Facts

• Mountains are the tallest land form on Earth.
• Mountains are not permanent.
• Most form at or near plate boundaries mainly
  where two plates collide.
• Mountains folds are common where tectonic plates
  collide.
• Erosion softens and wears down folds.

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Tall Facts (Cont.)

• Some of the oldest fold mountains have rounded
  peaks such as Arkansas Ouachita.
• Fault-block mountains occur where ever a faulting
  occurs.
• Fault-block form when pressure splits the crust.

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Mt. Shasta

• Located in California.
• Elevation is 14,180ft.

Ryans cat Shasta
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Tall Facts (Cont.)

• Not all volcanoes erupt.
• At divergent boundaries, magma rises up in the
  gap between the two plates that are pulling
  apart.
• Hot spots are formed by magma plumes rising.

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Erosion Mountains

• Mountains are always being shaped erosion.
• Catskills in New York was formed by erosion.
• There is only a few amount of erosion formed
  mountains in the world.
• Erosion formed mountains which can result in
  irregular peaks and valleys.

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Mt. Fuji

• Height is 12,388 ft.
• Located on Honshu Island, Japan, which is the
  tallest mountain in Japan.

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Mountains of California

• Tallest mountain in California is Mount. Whitney.
• Mt. Diablo is 3,848 ft.
• Mount. Muir is the sixth tallest mountain in
  California at 14,019 ft.

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Mountain Quiz 1

• What are mountains famous for?
• A Being the widest formation on Earth.
• B Being the tallest landforms.
• C Being the smallest landform.

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Mountain Quiz 2 (cont.)

• How tall is Mt. Fuji?
• A 13,620 ft.
• B 14, 736 ft.
• C12,388 ft.

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Mountain Quiz 3 (cont.)

• Are mountains permanent?
• AYes
• B No

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Mountain Quiz 4 (cont.)

• Where is Mt. Shasta
• A California
• B Iran
• C England

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Quiz Answers

• 1) A
• 2) C
• 3) B
• 4) A

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Bibliography

• "Ch.4 Mountain Building." Houghton Mifflin
  California Science. Boston, MA Houghton
  Mifflin, 2007. 134-39. Print.

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