Fold Mountains

Question 1

How does folding occur?

Answer 1

Folding occurs when plates collide and put great pressure on rocks in the crust. The pressure creates heat, the heat softens the rocks so that they become more bendable. The heat lasts for millions of years as the plates collide until eventually the rocks are folded and pushed up making fold mountains.

Question 2

What’s an anticline?

Answer 2

The are unfolds in fold mountains.

Question 3

What’s a syncline?

Answer 3

They are downfolds in fold mountains.

Question 4

Give an example of a Caledonian Fold Mountain?

Answer 4

Wicklow Mountains, formed 400 million years ago.

Question 5

Give an example of Armorican Fold Mountains?

Answer 5

The mountains of Cork and Kerry (Macgillycuddy Reeks) formed 250 million years ago.

Question 6

Give an example of Alpine Fold Mountains.

Answer 6

The Alps, The Himalayas, The Rockies, formed 50 million years ago.