Episode 88: Mountains! What They Are and How They Form

Time to climb a mountain! But, before we do that, we have to think about how mountains form! Akshay wonders about mountains a lot and sets out to discover how mountains form and many more things about these giant mounds of rock. Akshay also answers an amazing question he came up with: why is it cold on top of a mountain if we are closer to the Sun?

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