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WHAT’S A PLATE
BOUNDARY?
PLATE BOUNDARY
 where two tectonic plates meet.
 located at the end of the plates
 earthquakes are more likely to happen here
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MOUNTAIN RANGES
 Folded mountains – formed through plate convergence.
It occurs among top layers of the upper part of the earth’s
crust. Think of your shoe pushings against a carpet, causing
wrinkles to it.

 When a continental plate is subducted beneath another

continental plate, immense forces of compression fold the
crust to develop mountain ranges.

 It also forms when an oceanic plate subducts beneath a

continental plate.
VOLCANIC MOUNTAIN RANGES
 They usually have peaks that formed for over
thousands of years.
 They are constructed from lava flows, pyroclastics and
igneous rocks that are piled up over time.
EROSION-FORMED MOUNTAIN
RANGES
 This type does not form because of the Earth’s internal
activity but because of rock erosion or weathering.

 The Appalachian Plateau is an example, it’s made up of

sedimentary rocks formed by erosion.
DOME MOUNTAIN RANGES
 They result from the upwarping of tectonic plates.
 They can form isolated and large folds in flat regions.

 The Black Hills in South Dakota are an example.

FAULT-BLOCK MOUNTAIN RANGES
 Can cause tensional forces.

 These are when faults or cracks on the earth’s crust

force some area up and others down.
TRIVIA!
 Himalayas is the youngest of mountain ranges in the
world result to the collision between Indo-Australian
& Eurasian tectonic plates. It also has 51 mountains
overall.

 The Gangkchar Puensum Mountain in China, part of

the Himalayas, is the highest unclimbed mountain.
WHAT IS THE RELATION BETWEEN
PLATE BOUNDARIES AND
MOUNTAIN RANGES?