Question

1. Distinguish between the following :
a. Fold mountain and block mountain b. Young fold mountain and old fold mountain.
c. Block mountain and volcanic mountain.
2. How are the mountains useful to us?

Answer 1

a) Fold mountains are characterized by large scale complex folds. Block mountains are characterized by steep slopes and flat tops. b) block mountains are created when large areas or blocks of earth are broken and displaced vertically...volcanic mountains starts out as a

simple crack in the earth called a volcanic vent...

2. Mountains play a significant role in providing water and food suply to the millions of people in the world.

Answer 2

1. (a) Fold mountains are greater in length but comparatively smaller in width ; Block mountains are generally wider in length as compared tot eh fold mountains.

Example: the Himalayas Example: Black Forest Mountains in Germany

1.(b) Young mountains, created several dozen million years ago, have steep slopes and high-pointed peaks. The youngest mountains, also the highest in the world, are within the Himalayas massif in Asia. Old mountains, in contrast, have rounded peaks and slopes made gentler by hundreds of millions of years of erosion.

1.(c) Block mountains are created when large areas or blocks of earth are broken and displaced vertically. ... A volcanic mountain starts out as a simple crack in the Earth called a volcanic vent. Magma erupts out of the ground as lava flows, clouds of ash, and explosions of rock.

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