Mountains are often formed by tectonic plates pushing together and folding the land, causing mountain ranges. As altitude increases in mountains, temperatures decrease because thinner air holds less heat. Different habitats exist at varying elevations, from windy peaks with few species to grassy, rocky slopes grazed by goats and sheep below the tree line. Mountain plants and animals are adapted to survive the cold and wind through traits like low-lying growth, deep roots, and large lungs.

1. Fernando Diaz y Agustín Rujana

2. Mountains ranges
 Most mountains are formed when the plates push
together, forcing the land into fold mountains.
 This is why mountains often are in long lines, or ranges.
 When air is blown from the sea onto a mountain
range it forces it to rise.

3. Mountains Levels
 When higher up a mountain you go, the colder it gets.
 Because the higher air is thinner, so it can store less
heat.

4. Animals
 Few species live on the windy peaks
 Mountain goats and sheep graze live on the grassy rocky
slopes.
 Below the grassy rocky slopes , there is a tree line, it is
warm enough for trees to grow.

5. Adaptation
 Mountain species are adapted to surviving in cold
temperatures and strong winds.
 Mountain plants grow close to the ground and have deep
roots.
 Mountains animals have large lungs for extracting
enough oxygen from the air.