Where are the major mountain ranges located?

How many mountain ranges can you name?

Objectives

• All students must be able to name three mountain ranges from around the world

• Most students should be able to explain how plate movements lead to the formation of mountains

• Some students could explain why we have mountains in the UK despite being far from plate boundaries

• STRIPE – Innovative learner - Use different learning styles

Starter

• Complete a map from memory exercise to find out where 10 of the world’s main mountain ranges are located

• Work in groups of four, with one student going to look at the main map at a time, then adding whatever they can remember to your outline map

• Swap maps and mark them – give one mark for each range accurately located and one for each range that is named

What is the relationship between mountains and plate boundaries?

• You will be given a map showing the plate boundaries

• Add the main mountain ranges to this map• Describe the relationship shown on your map

What can you remember about plate boundaries and volcanoes

from years 8 and 9?

What are fold mountains and how do they form?

Objectives

• All students must be able to name three mountain ranges from around the world

• Most students should be able to explain how plate movements lead to the formation of mountains

• Some students could explain why we have mountains in the UK despite being far from plate boundaries

• STRIPE – Innovative learner - Use different learning styles

How do fold mountains form?

• Look at page 45 in the black textbook to find out how fold mountains form.

• Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVyBsUgD7Gk

• Working in groups, produce a revision resource to explain this process – this could be a worksheet, a poster, a mini-movie, an annotated diagram etc.

Fold mountains in the Andes

• The Andes Mountains run the length of the West Coast of South America, rising in the North in Colombia and finishing in Chile and Argentina in the South.  

• They are world's longest mountain range running for over 7,000km and covering 6 countries. 

How did the Andes form?

• The mountains have been formed as a result of the convergence of the Nazca plate and the South American plate. 

• The heavier oceanic crust of the Nazca plate is pushed towards the South American plate, and because it is denser is subducted underneath. 

• The South American plate is less dense so sits on top of this subduction zone, but the rocks of the South American plate have been folded upwards and crumpled into fold mountains.

Andes facts and figures!

• There is a sequence of volcanoes and fold mountains, rising up to 6962m at Aconcagua. 

• The trench (marking the boundary between the Nazca and South American plates) to the West of the Andes mountains is called the Peru-Chile Trench, and reaches an incredible depth of 8066m under the sea level.

Task• Working in groups, produce a revision resource to

explain how fold mountains form in the Andes – • VISUAL LEARNERS (IMAGES)– why not make a

poster, an annotated diagram or a series of illustrations?

• VISUAL LEARNERS (WRITING) – why not write an explanation of the process?

• AUDITORY LEARNERS – why not write a poem or a rap and record it to share?

• KINAESTHETIC LEARNERS – why not make a model or a series of models?

Sharing your ideas• Each group should share their revision

resource with the class • Your teacher may take photographs/video

of some pieces and will collect in hard copies of work to put onto the shared area for you to use when you revise

• Give feedback to each group – what have they done well? What could they improve?

• Do any team members deserve a merit for their outstanding contribution to the task?

Reflection

• Why are there mountains in Britain when we aren’t on a plate boundary?

• Have we been innovative learners today?