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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Mountain Building

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A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of how mountains are formed. Inquiry-based exploration of mountain building includes the rock cycle, mountain formation, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, rocks, minerals, and faults.

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Concepts
plate tectonics, mountains
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Additional Tags
earth folding, faulting, major geological event, mountain building, mountain formation, plate motion, rock cycle, thermal energy in earth's mantle, uplifting, volcano, digital library for earth system education: teaching box: mountain building, earthquake, fault line, mineral, plate boundary
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional