Mountain Building (Deep Dive)
📋 What it is
Different collisions build different mountains — folding, faulting, or volcanic peaks.
🗣️ Coach says
Mountains form in several ways. Two continents colliding CRUMPLE and FOLD the crust into ranges (the Himalayas). Blocks of crust can be pushed up along faults (fault-block mountains). And volcanic mountains build from erupted lava. The type of plate action decides the mountain’s style.
🧠 Memory hook
Mountains build by folding (collisions), faulting (uplifted blocks), or volcanoes. Plate action sets the style.
😂 Giggle
What did the magma say when it reached the surface?
"I'm lava now — total glow-up!"
😲 Whoa!
India is still crashing into Asia at about 4 cm a year, which is why the Himalayas — the tallest mountains on Earth — are still slowly rising.
✅ Quick check: How do two colliding continents build a mountain range like the Himalayas?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
The collision crumples and folds the crust upward over millions of years into towering ranges.
Continental collision folds and uplifts crust.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Push a tablecloth from both ends — it crumples into "mountains", like colliding continents.