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Objective 10/22/2012. Identify the most common types of mountains. Intro. Pick up worksheet from front table and tape/glue into notebook. Weekly Worksheet #9: Where are some good places to find fish fossils?. Mountain Building. How about right here!.

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  1. Objective 10/22/2012 Identify the most common types of mountains. Intro • Pick up worksheet from front table and tape/glue into notebook. • Weekly Worksheet #9: • Where are some good places to find fish fossils?

  2. Mountain Building

  3. How about right here! Where in this picture would be the best place to find fish fossils?

  4. Could Plate Tectonics have anything to do with it? Any explanations???

  5. Mountain Building • 3 types of mountains • Folded Mtns. • Fault-Block Mtns. • Volcanic Mtns.

  6. Mountain Building • Folded Mtns. • Form when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward. • Ex.: • Appalachian Mtns. In Eastern U.S. • Himalayas in Asia

  7. Mountain Building • Fault-Block Mtns. • tension • Form when tension causes large blocks of the Earth’s crust to drop down • Ex.: Tetons in western Wyoming • Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object

  8. Mountain Building • Volcanic Mtns. • Forms when magma rises through the crust onto the surface of Earth

  9. Objective 10/22/2012 Identify the most common types of mountains. Outro The Rocky Mountains are only half as tall as they once were. What will MOST likely cause the Rocky Mountains to continue to lose elevation? Continental drift Volcanic eruption Mountain building Weathering and erosion

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