Types of Mountains

Theses are created where two or more of Earth's tectonic plates are pushed together.

• Dome

• Fold

• Volcanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

At these colliding, compressing boundaries, rocks are warped & folded into hills & mountains

• Fold

• Block

• Volcanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

These are formed from magma rising & pushes overlying sedimentary rock upward to form a “dome” shape

• Dome

• Block

• Volcanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Unlike a volcano, the magma typically does not reach the Earth's surface.

• Dome

• Block

• Fold

Formed when tension causes large blocks of Earth’s crust to drop down relative to other blocks

• Block

• Dome

• Volcanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

These are formed by magma rising up from the mantle to the crust of the Earth

• Volcanic

• Fold

• Dome

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of mountain is this ?

• Fold

• Block

• Dome

• volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of mountain is this?

• block

• dome

• volcano

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of mountain is this?

• Dome

• Block

• Volcano

What type of mountain is this?

• block

• dome

• fold