"The mountains seemed to walk!" That is what a Chinese writer said about a terrible earthquake he saw. During the worst earthquakes, the ground shivers and shakes and rumbles. Whole sections of land...
The highest place in the world
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...
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