What are the four kinds of mountains? How are they formed?
What will be an ideal response?
Folded mountains are the world's largest mountains. They form from the compression and complex folding of many layers of rock that occurs mainly at convergent plate boundaries.
Fault-block mountains are created by tensional stress. Broad uplifting over a large area stretches the crust so that it cracks and faults. Fault-block mountains occur where a section of rock bounded by at least one normal fault plane pushes upward and rises above the surrounding landscape
Volcanoes are mountains produced by the accumulation of erupted material.
Upwarped mountains are produced when Earth's surface is pushed upward in a dome shape by upwelling magma.
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