Mountains

How are fold mountains made?

• Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

• Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down

• Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

• Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust

• Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

How are Fault-block mountains made?

• Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

• Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down

• Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava

• Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

• Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs

How are Volcanic mountains made?

• Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

• Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down.

• Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

• Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

• Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

How are Dome mountains made?

• Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

• Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down.

• Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

• Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

• Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

How are Plateau mountains made

• Tectonic plates collide and rock is pushed up.

• Cracks in the earth’s surface open up, some chunks of rock are pushed up, some down.

• Formed around volcanoes and made of layers of ash and cooled lava.

• Formed when magma is forced upwards but doesn’t ever flow out of the crust.

• Materials taken away through erosion leave deep valleys or gorges next to high cliffs.

The height above sea level.

• Altitude

• avalanche

• crust

• gorges

• hypothermia

A large amount of snow that quickly moves down a mountain or slope.

• altitude

• avalanche

• hypothermia

• magma

Hot, liquid rock located deep below the earth’s surface.

• hypothermia

• summit

• magma

• tectonic plate

Pieces of the earth’s crust connected together

• gorges

• lava

• tectonic plate

• altitude