How Mountains are Formed
The Himalayas are an example of this type of mountain, because they were formed by the Indian plate colliding with the Eurasian Plate.
What are fold mountains?
This is what happens to the temperature of the air as you gain elevation.
What is a drop in temperature?
These naturally occurring materials, such as zinc, copper, gold, and silver, can often be mined from mountains.
What are minerals?
This word describes the height of a mountain, peak, or plateau relative to sea level.
What is elevation?
This is the name of the tallest mountain in the world, which is located in the Himalayas along the border between Nepal and Tibet (modern-day China). It was first summited by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
What is Mount Everest?
This mountain range in Europe is home to the ibex.
What are the Alps?
These types of mountains are formed when two plates slide and push past one another, such as the Sierra Nevada mountains.
What are fault-block mountains?
This is the reason why it is more difficult to breathe at higher elevations.
What is a decrease in air pressure / What is decreased oxygen?
This is an area of land that is flat, but located at a high elevation.
What is a plateau?
This extinct volcano is the highest mountain in Africa, but it is not part of any mountain range.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This mountain range runs from north to south along the western United States and Canada, and blocks moisture from getting to places just east of it, such as Denver.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This is when mountain animals go into a sleeplike state during the winter months, conserving energy and surviving off of their body fat.
What is to hibernate?
Dome mountains are formed when this pushes up from underneath the earth's crust.
What is magma?
The first one of these was dug in the 1800s in a mountainside in the Alps, in order to pass through or under the mountain.
What is a tunnel?
People will use hydroelectric plants to generate electricity by building this special type of wall to slow and control the flow of water down a mountain.
What is a dam?
This is the highest mountain in North America.
What is Denali?
This mountain range in the eastern United States has been worn down by millions of years of weathering and erosion.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This is the longest mountain range in the world, and it is located in South America.
What are the Andes?
When magma is released onto the earth's surface as lava, it cools, gradually forming this type of mountain.
What is a volcano?
This is an easier and naturally occurring way to travel across a mountain range. While this way does not go over the peak of a mountain, it still might require you to endure high elevation. Jose de San Martin crossed the Andes using one of these.
What is a mountain pass?
People in South America and southeastern Asia have been known to carve these stair-like structures into the side of mountains in order to farm crops.
What are terraces?
This is the highest mountain in the Alps.
What is Mont Blanc?
This mountain range, located in modern-day Russia and Kazakhstan, forms part of the natural boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Urals?
Many mountain animals, such as mountain goats, have this adaptation which makes them surefooted.
What are hoofs with sharp edges?
This type of volcano is not likely to erupt again.
What is an extinct volcano?
These people, native to the Pyrenees between Spain and France, developed a unique language and culture as a result of their isolation in the mountains.
Who are the Basques?
What is skiing?
This mountain range runs along the northwestern coast of Africa.
What are the Atlas mountains?
This is the highest mountain in South America.
What is Mount Aconcagua?
This is the name of the highest mountain in the Caucasus Mountains of central Asia.
What is Mount Elbrus?