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The mountain environment. This site provides information about various aspects of the mountain environment including what mountains are, how they are formed, what types there are, the tallest mountains, the mountains around the world and much more.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/mountains.htmThe mountain environment. A PowerPoint covering various aspects of the mountain environment
http://www.learnanywhere.co.uk/la/geography/15.pptFocus on Mountains. This site contains a fact file on mountains and some information.
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/primary/focuson/intro.htmlMountains. National Geographic Explorer Classroom Magazine BrainPop Quick Flick movie
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0303/quickflicks/Geohive - The highest mountains in the world. This site lists the world's highest mountains in order of their height
http://www.geohive.com/charts/nat_mountains.aspx
Explore mountains. This site provides some statistics about mountains and mountain ranges of the world.
http://www.mountain.org/education/subexplore/explore01.cfmIntute: Science, Engineering & Technology World Guide. Click on a mountain for a satellite photo
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/worldguide/guide_mountains.htmlMountain Explorer. This site features information on over 100 individual peaks, with 64 photos, 70 journal entries, and 30 peak information pages. The World Map page allows a search by continent, region, range, and peak.
http://www.peakbagger.com/cont/worldmap.htmMad about Mountains. This site includes coverage of mountains in the Lakes District and the Scottish Hills in the United Kingdom, the Italian Dolomites, Zermatt, and other locations, with walking information, poems, and other material.
http://www.keswick.u-net.com/
Mountains. This site contains some information about Mt Everest. It also includes some games, a quiz, a song and a story about mountains
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/archive/theme_mountains.htmlList of mountains. From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains
Mountains and Mountain Ranges of AustraliaGeoscience Australia : Highest Mountains
http://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/highmtns.htmRegional Information about the Blue Mountains, New South Wales
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/Blue_Mountains_NSW1.htmlRegional Information about the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/Flinders_RangesOutback__S1.htmlRegional Information about the Grampians, Victoria
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/The_Grampians_VIC1.htmlRegional Information about the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales
http://www.oztravel.com.au/travel_mall/destinations/Snowy_Mountains_NSW1.htmlMountains photos gallery. This sites has photos of the major mountains of the world
http://www.caingram.info/Mountains.htm
Peakware Photo Gallery. This site's Photo Gallery has a collection of photographs of mountains, organised by continent.
http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/photos.htmAdventure Photographs. Photographic images of the mountains of Nepal, the Scottish Highlands, and the volcanoes of Kamchatka in the far East of Russia,
http://www.adventurephotographs.com/Scotland's Mountains. Photographic images of Scottish mountains
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/gshaw/mountains.htmThe mountain environment. A wide range of resources
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geography/qca/mountains.htmThe mountain environment. This site includes ideas for teachers and activities for students.
http://www.4learning.co.uk/essentials/geography/units/mount_bi.shtmlThe mountain environment. Links to several PowerPoints
http://www.whinstone.stocktontrain.net/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=3043A mountain environment. This unit of work is made up of 9 one hour lessons
http://www.teachnet-uk.org.uk/2007%20Projects/P_Geog-Mountain_Environment/MountainThe Standards Site. http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/geography/geo15/15q1?view=get
The mountain environment. A worksheet for Year 6, Unit 15
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/Documents/primary/
© 2002-2008 Jackie Miers
Teacher Librarian
South Australia
Page last updated September, 2008
