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Geography: Mountains, Rivers and Coasts
Summer 1, week 3
Aquamarine 1, 2, 3
This week, you will be learning about how mountains are formed.
Key Facts and
Vocabulary
Mountain Types
There are different types of mountains which all form in different ways:
Fold mountains
Fault-block mountains
Dome mountains
Volcanic Mountains
Plateau Mountains
Watch:
Video Link 1
Watch:
Video Link 2
Your activity today: Mountain Classification Expert
Here are diagrams of the five main types of mountains. You need to match the type of mountain to the correct diagram, using the information we are going to give you.
1. Watch this video—can you label any of the diagrams with the information you find out?
2. Next, use the information on the following pages to help you label the diagrams.
Mountain Types
Fold mountains
Fault-block mountains
Dome mountains
Volcanic Mountains
Plateau Mountains
Answers!
Let’s see how you did!
Mountain Types
Fold mountains
Fault-block mountains
Dome mountains
Volcanic Mountains
Plateau Mountains
Fault-block mountains
Fold mountains Dome mountains
Volcanic Mountains Plateau Mountains
There are some more mountain challenges on the following pages, if you would like to continue your learning!
Look at the pictures of these real mountains. Which mountain type do you think they might be, based on what
you have learnt? The answers are on the final page of this week’s learning.
The Alps, France
Sierra Nevada, USA
Yosemite National Park, USA
The Grand Canyon, USA Mt Etna, Sicily, Italy
Answers to activity 2
The Alps are fold mountains
The Sierra Nevada range are fault block mountains
Fairview Dome mountain in Yosemite National Park is a (you guessed it!) dome mountain
Mt Etna is an active volcano in Italy, found on the island of Sicily
The Grand Canyon is a range of plateau mountains. It is actually a large, deep river valley. The main cause of
the erosion that formed the Grand Canyon was water.
Make your own fold mountains at home!
Materials needed:
A pile of towels Two boxes / big books
1. Lay down a stack of towels each one folded in half. The folds will be more obvious if you use towels of various colours.
2. Put a box on either side of the towels. 3. The boxes represent the movement of the continental
plates while the towels represent layers of rock in between.
4. Push the boxes (continental plates) towards each other and observe the “mountains” being formed.
5. Make observations about the folds and the shape. 6. You could draw your own diagram of how fold
mountains are formed.