Why Do Mountains Stay Standing for Millions of Years?

Mountains are like big, slow-moving blocks of stone that don’t get tired. They stay up because the Earth’s crust is pushing them from below and they’re not falling down fast enough to feel it yet. It's like stacking building blocks, you can push on one side, but the whole tower stays up for a long time.

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  1. A stack of blocks pushed gently from one side
  2. A tree growing slowly on top of a hill for hundreds of years
  3. Sand being squeezed into a shape by hands pushing it together

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