MOUNTAIN RANGES

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According to —, the lithosphere is broken info huge plates that slide under, over and past each other resulting to mountain building, volcanism, and earthquake

plate tectonics

-forces and events that lead to a large structural deformation of the farth's lithosphere of mountains.

Orogeny

-science concerned with the study of mountains

Geomorphology

large and elevated land form formed thru volcanism and tectonic forces

Mountains

Parts of mountain

top/ summit Slope/side

--steep valley between young mountains.

gorge

weathering and erosion transported sediments to the edge of continental crust

•Stage 1- Accumulation of Sediments

edge of continental crust accumulated sediments are deformed by compressional forces from collision of plates

Stage 2-Orogenic Period of Rock Deformation and Crustal Uplift

-Period of Crustal uplift caused by lostatic Rebound and Block Faulting

Stage 3

the crust bends the lithosphere into atmosphere causing the lower layer to flow out of the way

Isostatic rebound

In isostatic rebound • the crust sinks until it reaches its —

buoyancy point

In isostatic rebound, the change in the load will cause the crust to — over a period of time.

rise back again

• due to erosion, part of the surface mountains is removed, lessens weight, causing the continental crust to float higher in the mantle

Block Faulting

Succession of many closely spaced mountains in the world. covering a particular portion of the Earth

MOUNTAIN RANGE

•highest mountain system and also youngest

HIMALAYAS

"Himalaya" (from Sankrit language) means

"the House of Snow", "Snow Range"

Himalayas consists of several parallel ranges and is home to the world's highest peaks including, the — located on the border between —

Mount Everest, Tibet & Nepal

Because of the great difference in various parts of the range almost every kind of — can be found in Himalayas

climate

longest mountain chain in the world

ANDES MOUNTAINS

the Andes mountains stretch extends along the entive west coast of the south America from — (4, 500 miles)

Cape Horn to Panama

ANDES MOUNTAIN RANGE IS DIVIDED INTO 3 SECTIONS

Central, Southern, Northern

chilean and Peruvian mountain systems and part of Boliva

Central Andes-

- Andes in Argentina and Chile

Southern Andes

Andes in Columbia, Ecuador, venezuela

Northern

Because of its lentgh, this ANDES served as BARRIER between — and the rest of —

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN SOUTH AMERICA

Due to subduction of the —, the LANDMASS of ANDES ROSE into GREAT height.

Nazca Plate and Antartic Plate

•primary mountain system of eastern Northern America

APPALACHIAN

oldest mountain In US (North America)

APPALACHIAN

APPALACHIANSStretches south westward for about (1,500 miles) From —

Canada to Central Alabama

in Northern carolina is the highest peak of the Appalachians standing (6,684 feet)

Mount Mitchell i

largest mountain system in Europe towering at 15, 782 above sea level

ALPS

in the pennine Alps, France is the highest mountain in this ranges.

Mount Blanc

is believed to have originated in the Alps.

Alpinism or mountaineering

The — were part of the orogenesis caused by collission between Eurasian and African plates

Alps

known as rockies

ROCKY MOUNTAINS

group of jagged snow-capped peaks which run through the western part of Northern America

ROCKY MOUNTAINS

highest peak in ROCKY MOUNTAIN 4.401 meters

Mountain Elbert

MOUNTAIN ELBERT stands as the range extends —, the peaks gradually become lower until they disapear in of ice-covered hills at Arctic circle. USUALLY COVERED IN SNOW

north through ALASKA

also known as Eastern Highlands

The GREAT DIVIDING RANGE

Australia's most substantial mountain range.

The GREAT DIVIDING RANGE

3rd longest land-based-range in the world and

the Great Dividing Range

THE GREAT DIVIDING RANGE In Southern New South Wales and Eastern Victoria, CONTINENT'S TALLEST PEAK, — , that rises to a height of 2, 228 l above sea level

Mount Kosciuzko

"—" named given because the mountain range forms Watershed.

Great Dividing Range

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