State and explain the different types of Mountains.
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A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. A mountain differs from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is larger than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1000 feet) above the surrounding land
There are three types of mountains » block mountain, fold mountain, volcanic mountains
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Mountain is the landform, it is the large natural elevation of the earth's crust.
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- There are three main types of mountains.
- They are fold mountains, block mountains and volcanic mountains.
- Other than three there are dome and plateau type of mountains are present.
- Compare to hill mountain is large.
- Compare to surrounding area mountains are rising at least 300 metres.
- Fold mountains are formed along convergent plate boundaries.
- When a tectonic plate are collide to form folds it is called fold mountains.
- Example of fold mountains are the alps in europe, himalayan mountains in asia and the urals in russia.
- Block mountains are formed when large areas are cracks in the earth surface displaced vertically.
- The rhine valley and the harz mountains in germany are the examples of block mountains.
- Volcanic mountain formed due to volcanic activity.
- Mt. Kilimanjaro and mount pinatubo in the philippines are the examples of volcanic mountains.
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