Describe two ways in which the movement of lithospheric plates can result in the formation of mountains.

Movements of tectonic plates create volcanoes along the plate boundaries, which erupt and form mountains. A volcanic arc system is a series of volcanoes that form near a subduction zone where the crust of a sinking oceanic plate melts and drags water down with the subducting crust.

1. a tropical dry forest carries out more rapid nutrient cycling