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What is the most common way mountains form?
Mountains form on shifting tectonic plates
How was the Atlas Mountains formed?
As the Eurasian plate and the African plate converged, the two plates collided. The rock strata along the boundary was compressed, resulting in the rock strata to fold and buckle. Over time, these folded rock strata formed a fold mountain range known as the Atlas Mountains.
What two plates collided to form the Appalachian mountains?
The North American and African plates
How do Folded mountains form when two plates converge?
neither plates are pushed under the other.
What types of mountains form when oceanic plates collide and slide under continental plates?
A Ocean-To-Continent Collision. A Volcanic Mountain Will Form.
What two countries for which the atlas mountains form most of their shared border?
The atlas mountains form the northern border of?
What is the most common way mountains form?
Mountains form on shifting tectonic plates
The kind of plates that cause mountains to form?
colliding plates
What mountains to form?
Movement of the plates.
When two continental plates collide what happens?
When two continental plates collide they form mountains .
What mountain range is in Morocco and Algeria?
* Ahaggar Mountains * Atlas Mountains * Aurès Mountains * Edough massif * Gueltara Mountains * Saharan Atlas * Tassili n'Ajjer * Tell Atlas See the link below for the source.
Mountains in northwest corner of africa?
The Atlas Mountains. They formed when Africa's and Europe's tectonic plates collided. That also formed the Mediterranean Sea and the Alps.
How do mountains form at plates boundaries?
mountains are made when the crust folds, tilts ,and lifts as a result of this meeting of plates.
How do earth mountains form and erode?
Earth's mountains form and erode from erupting and by shifting plates.
How many mountains are in the Atlas Mountain range?
there are 10 mountains in the atlas mountains
How are residual mountains form?
Residual mountains are formed by the plates in the earth moving
What mountains are located in southern Algeria?
The Atlas Mountains, including: the Middle Atlas, High Atlas, and Anti-Atlas.
