Why Do Mountains Move?

Mountains are like giant blocks of rock that move slowly over time. Imagine the Earth is made up of big puzzle pieces, and mountains are on those pieces. When the puzzle pieces slide past each other, mountains can walk across the land, just really, really slowly.

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A mountain moving slowly across a continent is like walking through a crowd, it happens so gradually that we don’t see it.
Mountains can grow by pushing up against each other like two people pushing their hands together.
A mountain range might rise over millions of years, just like stacking blocks one at a time.

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