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Article: Building Himalayas. (Diagram-Reading/Critical-Thinking Skills).
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- Science World
- Article date:
- March 7, 2003
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In "The Making of a Mountain" (pp. 13 to 15), you learned about how the world's highest mountains formed over millions of years' time. Use the diagrams on pages 14 and 15 to help answer the questions below. Write your answers as complete sentences.
1. What is the lithosphere?
2. What are the thick slabs that cover Earth's surface called?
3. Describe the collision that gave birth to the Himalayas.
4. What separated India and Asia 60 MYA?
5. How do folded mountains form?
6. What is an anticline? What's a syncline?