What is a mountain?
A mountain is a landform that rises high above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. They are made from rocks and earth. Generally, mountains are higher than 300 meters. Those less than 300 meters are called hills.
What do mountains look like?
Mountains usually have steep, sloping sides, sharp or slightly rounded ridges, and peaks. Mountains can be rocky and barren. Some have trees growing on their sides and very high mountains have snow on their peaks.
Island of Hawaii
The six major Hawaiian Islands—the Big Island, Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, and Kauai—form a chain of islands going northwest.
Common features of mountains:
Some common features of mountains include the following: the summit, or the top of a mountain; the slope, or side of the mountain; and a very steep valley between young mountains, known as a gorge.
Where are mountains found?
Mountains exist on every continent and even beneath our great oceans. Some of the highest mountains are at the bottom of the sea. Hawaii is at the top of a volcanic mountain in the Pacific Ocean. More than half the mountain is below water. The largest range of mountains is in the Atlantic Ocean. Mountains cover one-fifth of the earth’s land surface and occur in 75 per cent of the world’s countries.
How are mountains formed?
Mountains are formed through varying causes, there are several distinct types of mountains. Sometimes the crust has folded and buckled, sometimes it breaks into huge blocks. In both cases, great land areas are lifted upwards to form mountains. Other mountains are formed by the earth’s crust rising into a dome or volcanic activity when the crust cracks open.
What different types of mountains are there?
There are five basic kinds of mountains:
- Fold Mountains (Folded Mountains)
- Fault-block Mountains (Block Mountains)
- Dome Mountains
- Volcanic Mountains
- Plateau Mountains
What is a mountain range?
Mountain ranges are long chains or groups of mountains. Ranges are usually 1,000 or more miles long. The Rocky Mountains and the Himalayan Mountains are examples of mountain ranges.
What is a mountain system?
A group of mountain ranges is called a mountain system. For example, the mountain systems of the United States include the Rockies and the Appalachians.
How many people live in the mountains?
Mountains are home to approximately one-tenth of the world’s people. More than half of the world’s freshwater originates in mountains, and all the world’s major rivers are fed from mountain sources. In fact, all the major rivers in the world — from the Rio Grande to the Nile — have their headwaters in mountains and one of every two people on the planet depends on mountain water in one way or another: for drinking, as a source of energy or income, for growing food.
Read the text and answer the questions:
Answer the given questions:
1. What is the difference between mountains and hills?
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2. How are the mountains formed?
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3. Tick two boxes which are according to the given text:
- Mountains can be rocky and barren.
- Very high mountains have trees on their peaks.
- Mountains exist on every continent and even beneath our great oceans.
- Mountains are made from rocks and mud.
4. How much earth’s land surface does mountains cover? Give evidence from the text.
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5. a) What is the genre of this passage? Tick one answer:
- Realistic Fiction
- Informative Text
- Persuasive Text
b) What is the purpose of the text?
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c) Write two main features of the genre.
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6. “All the world’s major rivers are fed from mountain sources.” What does it mean?
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7. Give a topic sentence for the last paragraph.
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8. Complete the sentences with appropriate words below:
(topic, conclusion, paragraph)
- A ______________ is a group of sentences that are all about the same subject.
- The _____________ sentence in each paragraph tells the reader what the paragraph is about.
- The final paragraph ties up the text in a _______________.
9. Give one word from the second paragraph that means the same as “unproductive.”
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10. Write a compound sentence from the 4th paragraph.
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11. Why is the text divided with subheadings?
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12. Underline the subject, circle the verb, and put a wiggly line under the object.
- Mountains exist on every continent and even beneath our great oceans.
- Mountains are formed through varying causes.