Where do you think the highest place in the world is? As you may have guessed, the highest place in the world is the top of a mountain. It is the top of Mount Everest, which stands between the...
The birth and death of a mountain range
Mountain ranges rise where a sea once met a shore. They start to form when a sea bottom along the edge of a continent begins to fill up with mud and sand. As the mud and sand grow thicker, the sea...
Giant rocks
Mountains are like great, gray giants. They are huge chunks of rock that have been pushed up out of the earth. Some mountains stand all alone, but most are connected together. Long chains of...
The moving continents
It may seem to you that the earth's crust is a single piece of rock. You may think this crust covers the outside of the earth just as an apple's skin covers an apple. But the earth's crust is...
Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
Mountains, Valleys, and Plains Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
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