Landforms

The Appalachians, the oldest North American mountains, are an example of upwarped mountains.

False

landforms made of layers of molten rock

Volcanic Mountains

landforms made of huge, tilted blocks of rocks that are separated from surrounding rocks by faults

Fault-Block Mountains

landforms formed by forces pushing up Earth’s crust

Upwarped Mountains

Relatively flat, raised areas of land are called plateaus.

True

Sharp, jagged peaks are characteristic of fault-blocked mountains.

True

Mountains that begin when molten material reaches Earth’s surface through a weak area of crust are fault-blocked mountains.

False

An example of a raised, flat area is/are the ____.

Colorado Plateau

Upwarped mountains are formed when crust is pushed up by forces inside the Earth.

True