Major Land

Features
DO YOU KNOW ?

Oldest mountain on earth is 400 million years ago named Caledonian

mountain
 MOUNTAINS
• WHAT ARE MOUNTAINS ?
Mountain is a major landform which is high
from surrounding areas and has a sloping
surface . It is broad compared to its top .
 Types of Mountains
• VOLCANOES :-
an opening in the Earth's crust through
which lava, ash, and gases erupt. It comes out on
Earth surfaces by Cracks . It has a narrow passage at
top named vent through which lava comes .
• FUJI YAMA
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• MAYON DO YO
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• ETNA Largest volcanoes stretch around

Pacific ocean . It is called
are some volcanoes “Ring of fire”
 FOLD MOUNTAINS
When internal forces put pressure on rocks from
sides, folds are occurred in these rocks . Later
internal forces uplifted them as mountains.
• HIMALAYAS
• ALPS
• ROCKIES
Are some fold mountains
 BLOCK MOUNTAINS
• a mountain formed by natural faults in the
earth's crust . Sometimes internal forces uplift
a part of Earth which becomes higher from
surroundings.

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Sometimes a land shrinks between two faults it is Rift valley

It is in East Africa which is 3000 km long