Fault-block Mountain Teacher Resources

The Sierra Mountains in Nevada and the Tetons in Wyoming originally formed as fault block mountains. In order to visualize these fault blocks, pupils use construction paper to create layers of earth. They cut the paper models and form...

Fifth graders conduct an experiment to demonstrate the folding and rippling of rock to form a mountain. They identify mountain chains on a map, participate in the demonstrations, and define folding fault block, igneous eruptions, igneous...

In this mountain formation worksheet, students will compare the 3 different types of mountains: fold, fault-block, and dome mountains. Students will write their answers in a graphic organizer.

Informative site about mountains. Look at the picture and read all about mountains, then take a quiz to show how much you know!

Read about the different types of mountains and how they are formed.

Site from the Southern Kings Consolidated School about mountains. Learn what mountains are and how they form.

Site for general information about mountains. There is a downloadable PDF of this article with pictures.

A contour map from the vicinity of Elizabethtown showing the rectangular pattern of relief and drainage lines in fault-block mountains of the eastern Adirondacks.

A contour map from 1911 of a fault-block mountain in the Trans-Pecos Highlands, Texas, showing typical relief and drainage patterns.