How do the mountains affect us? How many types Of mountains are there? Name them.
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Mountains have an extremely important role in influencing global and regional climates and weather conditions. They cover around one-quarter of the earth's land surface and are home to 720 million people around the world. Indirectly, billions more living downstream also benefit from mountains.
Mountains provide us with freshwater, energy, food, biodiversity, and medicinal products – resources that may become very rare in the coming decades. They are also very prone to climate changes, land degradation, deforestation and natural disasters. In addition, mountain people very often face marginalization, poverty, and the lack of basic services such as health and education.
aountains are there?
There are five basic kinds of mountains:
Fold Mountains (Folded Mountains)
Fault-block Mountains (Block Mountains)
Dome Mountains
Volcanic Mountains
Plateau Mountains
These different types of mountain names not only distinguish the physical characteristics of the mountains, but also how they were formed.
 Fold Mountains
Fold mountains are the most common type of mountain. The world’s largest mountain ranges are fold mountains. These ranges were formed over millions of years.
Fold mountains are formed when two plates collide head on, and their edges crumbled, much the same way as a piece of paper folds when pushed together.

The upward folds are known as anticlines, and the downward folds are synclines.
Examples of fold mountains include:
Himalayan Mountains in Asia
the Alps in Europe
the Andes in South America
the Rockies in North America
the Urals in Russia
The Himalayan Mountains were formed when India crashed into Asia and pushed up the tallest mountain range on the continents.
In South America, the Andes Mountains were formed by the collision of the South American continental plate and the oceanic
Pacific plate.
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Two Tectonic Plates meet along the Southern Alps. This is called a fault line. The Southern Alps are constantly changing because the Pacific Plate is being pushed down under the Australian Plate and that causes the Alps to rise up.
 Fault-block Mountains
These mountains form when faults or cracks in the earth's crust force some materials or blocks of rock up and others down.
Instead of the earth folding over, the earth's crust fractures (pulls apart). It breaks up into blocks or chunks. Sometimes these blocks of rock move up and down, as they move apart and blocks of rock end up being stacked on one another.

Often fault-block mountains have a steep front side and a sloping back side.
Examples of fault-block mountains include:
the Sierra Nevada mountains in North America
the Harz Mountains in Germany
 Dome Mountains
Dome
Mountains provide us with freshwater, energy, food, biodiversity, and medicinal products – resources that may become very rare in the coming decades. They are also very prone to climate changes, land degradation, deforestation and natural disasters. In addition, mountain people very often face marginalization, poverty, and the lack of basic services such as health and education.
aountains are there?
There are five basic kinds of mountains:
Fold Mountains (Folded Mountains)
Fault-block Mountains (Block Mountains)
Dome Mountains
Volcanic Mountains
Plateau Mountains
These different types of mountain names not only distinguish the physical characteristics of the mountains, but also how they were formed.
 Fold Mountains
Fold mountains are the most common type of mountain. The world’s largest mountain ranges are fold mountains. These ranges were formed over millions of years.
Fold mountains are formed when two plates collide head on, and their edges crumbled, much the same way as a piece of paper folds when pushed together.

The upward folds are known as anticlines, and the downward folds are synclines.
Examples of fold mountains include:
Himalayan Mountains in Asia
the Alps in Europe
the Andes in South America
the Rockies in North America
the Urals in Russia
The Himalayan Mountains were formed when India crashed into Asia and pushed up the tallest mountain range on the continents.
In South America, the Andes Mountains were formed by the collision of the South American continental plate and the oceanic
Pacific plate.
Did you know?
Two Tectonic Plates meet along the Southern Alps. This is called a fault line. The Southern Alps are constantly changing because the Pacific Plate is being pushed down under the Australian Plate and that causes the Alps to rise up.
 Fault-block Mountains
These mountains form when faults or cracks in the earth's crust force some materials or blocks of rock up and others down.
Instead of the earth folding over, the earth's crust fractures (pulls apart). It breaks up into blocks or chunks. Sometimes these blocks of rock move up and down, as they move apart and blocks of rock end up being stacked on one another.

Often fault-block mountains have a steep front side and a sloping back side.
Examples of fault-block mountains include:
the Sierra Nevada mountains in North America
the Harz Mountains in Germany
 Dome Mountains
Dome
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Types of mountains:
- Mountain work as barrier. When air reached to mountain.
- Mountain become barrier and it force the upcoming air to rise wind ward side of mountain. It cools and the volume is decreasing.
- Due to this reason humidity increase and orographic as well as perception can develop.
- In other side when the air descends leeward side, it warms and drier due to moisture in the air was wrung out during the ascent.
- In this area there is lack of moisture and known as rain shadow
- There are mainly five types mountain: Folded Mountain, Plateau Mountain, volcanic Mountain, Dome Mountain and Block mountain.
- Their name is not only for their physical properties but also for their formation process.
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