GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fold mountains are often associated with continental crust. They are created at convergent plate boundaries, sometimes called continental collision zones or compression zones. Convergent plate boundaries are sites of collisions, where tectonic plates crash into each other.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fold mountains form when two tectonic plates collide (a compressional plate margin), this can be where two continental plates move towards each other (collision margin) or a continental and an oceanic plate converge (destructive plate margin).

Detailed explanation-3: -When two plates come together, it is known as a convergent boundary. The impact of the colliding plates can cause the edges of one or both plates to buckle up into a mountain ranges or one of the plates may bend down into a deep seafloor trench.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why do folded mountain belts sometimes form at convergent plate boundaries? because rock is compressed and forced upward. because convergent plate boundaries occur above hot spots. because the rock is stretched apart and breaks, which allows magma to rise to Earth’s surface.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fold mountains are mountain ranges formed at destructive plate boundaries. Here, two plates move towards each other and collide. This causes sediments and rocks to get damaged and crumple (hence the name, destructive plate boundaries.