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2.8 Large-Scale Change: Mountain-Building

Learn how mountains form.
Identify the parts of mountain systems.
Explore how matter is transferred during mountain building.
Explain the role of energy during mountain building.

Mountain Building Okanagan University College
Information, including diagrams, about the evolution of mountains.

Himalayas Exaggerated NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

	Conceptual animations zooming down to Bangladesh followed by an exaggerated growth of the Himilayan Mountain Range.

Mountain Movie BrainPOP.com
Play the movie to learn more about how mountains are formed.

Chapter One
Nature of Science

Chapter Two
Large-Scale Forces that Change the Geosphere

2.1
Evidence, Models, and Explanation

2.2
Matter Within Systems

2.3
Using Models

2.4
Natural Hazards and Risks

2.5
Earthquakes and Volcanoes

2.6
Continental Drift

2.7
Mantle Convecton and Plate Tectonics

2.8
Mountain-
Building

Chapter Three
Surface Process that Change the Geosphere

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This project is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (grant no ESI-0095938). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.