monstrous mountains

Mountain sports cover a wide range of many loved sports like:

• Skiing
• Hiking
• Camping
• Snowboarding
• Mountain biking
• Rockclimbing
• Trekking

I’m sure there are many more but these are the best known and favorites in the world. There are many competitions for these sports and some are featured in the Olympics. I myself love hiking, camping and skiing there great fun and good because your exercising. But what has happened to create mountains and hills that we use to do these sports? I shall tell you.

 Pic from worldatlas.com

Plate boundaries:

Pic from pulse.pharmacy.arizona

Anyway so mountains are formed at both plate boundaries, at constructive plate boundaries convection currents (there currents in the magma under the earth’s crust) push the two plates apart so magma flows out of the gap, cools and forms new land, when the gap opens up again more magma flows out. This happens again and again so the plate builds up layers and layers creating mountains, examples are the mid-Atlantic ridge rift and east African rise.

At destructive plate boundaries one tectonic plate is heavier than another so it sinks below it and melts into the mantle, but as the plate sinks it’s pushing against the other plate crushing it together and forcing it to fold upwards creating mountain ranges. Mountains formed this way are called Fold Mountains examples are the Rockies’ and the Alps.

 Pic from volcanoes.usgs.gov   

So that’s how some mountains are formed, very interesting so maybe you’ll think of this next time you’re doing mountain sports.

Natural fun

OK for my blog I have decided to write about natural fun, you’re probably wondering what that is and so I shall explain. Natural fun is the like normal fun except better because it’s to do with geography and how natural parts of the earth are used by us every day for sports and leisure. I am talking about mountains, rivers, valleys and all natural phenomenon’s enjoyed and used by us today and that have been used since the beginning of our existence. When we canoe down a rushing river or pull ourselves up a rock face we don’t consider how this amazing piece of nature was formed, but when we’re back home safe (hopefully with all body parts) it’s nice to consider these wonders, but if you’re not bother to do that and look stuff up no worries I’ll do all the work while all you have to do is read.

I’ll be writing about how mountains, rivers and other land formations are formed and how we use them for sports and leisure today. You might wonder why I chose to write about this or you might not care and will be annoyed by me prattling on, but I don’t care so I’m going to tell you why anyway. As I said in my introduction, this is an assignment I was set in school by my teacher and it took me ages to think of a topic I’m interested in writing about, my inspiration was a recent hike I’d taken up the nearby mountain sand the memory of going white Water rafting a few years earlier. I started to think about my junior certs studies of how the earth and its many mountain and rivers where formed and I wanted to find out more, so I decided to research all about the naturals things I and the rest of us use all the time for fun.  

  

 Picture from bgreaterthanu.com

 Picture from list.co.uk





Introduction

Hello my name is jod and I've started this blog because my teacher asked me to, in this blog i will be talking about geography. I'm not sure witch area of geography I will focus on but i plan to make is as interesting and informative as possible.