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Mountains & Mountain Ranges Posters & Art Prints
for social studies and geography educators, and home schoolers.
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educational posters > social studies > geography > mountains posters pg 1 | 2 | Seven Summits < geology < science
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Mountains are land masses that project well above the surroundings. Mountains are formed by volcanic activity where molten rock either erupts through the surface as lava or pushs up and cools beneath the surface as domes, as rocks push against each other either creating “folds” or faults, or as wind and rain wear away softer rock and leave hard rock formations.
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Earth Processes Poster Series
Faults & Folds, Volcanoes, Erosion & Weathering, and more...
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The Adirondacks of New York State are the southern extention of the Laurentain Mt range of Canada and form the drainage divide between the Hudson River watershed and the St. Lawrence River/Great Lakes watershed. They are bordered on the east by Lake Champlain and Lake George, which separate them from the Green Mountains in Vermont. Author James Fenimore Cooper set part of his novel The Last of the Mohicans in the Adirondacks.
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Alps Mountains
The Alps are one of the great mountain ranges of Europe, stretching from France and Germany on the west, through Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Italy, to Solvenia and Austria on the east. Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in western Europe.
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The Atlas Mountains in NW Africa extend through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and include the Rock of Gibraltar. Today's Atlas and Allegheny/Appalachian ranges are thought to have first formed when the continents now known as Europe, Africa and North America collided to form the supercontinent of Pangaea, and then drifted apart.
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Appalachian ranges include (north-south) Long, Annieopsquotch, Shickshock, Notre Dame, Longfellow, White (NH), Green (VT), Taconic (NY), Berkshire (MA), Allegheny (PA, MD, WV), Poconos (PA), Blue Ridge (Carolinas to NY). The Appalachian are made up of "elongated belts of folded and thrust faulted marine sedimentary rocks, volcanic rocks".
The flora and fauna of the Appalachians vary by environmental conditions proscribed by the geology, latitude, and elevation of a particular area.
The Appalachians forme a natural western boundary to the expansion of the British colonies; both a protection for the settlers and the Native Americans from each other.
The name Appalachian appears to be connected to the name a 16th century Spanish expedition transcribed for a Native American village near a river that is known today as the Apalachicola.
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Andes Mountains is the longest mountain range in the world, stretching over 4,400 miles (7,000 km) along the western Pacific Coast of South America. The Andes are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions partially surrounding the Pacific Basin.
The word Andes means "high crest" and comes from "anti" in the Inca language of Quechua. Aconcagua, in the Argentinian Andes, is the highest peak outside of Asia (22,841 ft/6,962 m) and one of the Seven Summits.
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Mount Fuji, an active volcano with a low risk of eruption, is the highest point in Japan and a national symbol. The high altitude cloud in this image is called lenticular; they are characteristized by their lens appearance and smooth saucer-like shape.
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Mount Katahdin, Appalachian Mtns., State of Maine
northern end of the Appalachian Trail
• more Maine posters
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Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa
Kilimanjaro (Kilima Njaro - Swahili for "shining mountain"), the tallest free-standing mountain rise in the world, is a currently inactive stratovolcano; there are concerns about magma build-up and rapidly retreating glaciers near the summit.
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The landscape along the Li River in China is called 'karst', a term for a landscape shaped by the dissolution of bedrock layer(s), resulting in distinctive surface features and underground drainages. Karst topography is visible in the Kras Plateau border area of Italy and Slovinia, and in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas Ozark region of the United States.
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The Mt. McKinley Range or the Denali, which means "the great one", has the highest mountain peak in North America at 20,320 feet (6,194 m). It is part of the Alaska Range,which is in the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The mountain is referred to both as Denali and McKinley after beiing renamed to honor US President William McKinley in 1897.
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The Martian Olympus Mons volcano is the largest volcano in the Solar System and three times higher than Earth's Mount Everest. Because Olympus Mons is also wider than the entire Hawaiian volcano chain, the slopes are not steep. This image is from the Mars Global Surveyor Project, MSSS, JPL, NASA.
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Pedernal (9,862 ft) is a flat topped butte in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico.The word 'pedernal' means 'flint' in Spanish, the name recognizing the local Native American's source of stone to make arrowheads, knives, spearpoints and and scrapers. Noted American artist Georgia O’Keeffe lived nearby and painted the peak numerous times.
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Olympus Mons Volcano, Mars