1. Types of Mountains
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2. Most Mountains are Formed at
Convergent Plate Boundaries

3. Three Convergent Plate Collisions

4. Types of Mountains
Fault-Block Folded
Volcanic
Upwarped

5. Folded Mountains
-Created by continental/continental plate
collisions
-Form the highest
mountains
-Himilayas are a type
of folded mountain

8. Fault-Block Mountains
-Created when blocks of rock drop down
compared to other blocks
-Can form narrow valleys
-Basin and Range
mountains are fault-block

11. Upwarped Mountains
-Created when molten rock rises up in the crust
and pushes layers of rock up above it
-Can also create domes
-Rockies are upwarped

14. Volcanic Mountains
-Formed when magma spills and hardens on
the Earth’s crust
-Can grow with multiple eruptions
-The Sierra Nevada are
volcanic mountains