3.3 The Four Types of Mountains

1. Types of Mountains Mr. Silva

2. Most Mountains are Formed at Convergent Plate Boundaries

3. Three Convergent Plate Collisions

4. Types of Mountains Volcanic Folded Fault-Block Upwarped

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

6. 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

7. 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

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