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Appalachian Plateau
(HW 10)
Each answer worth 2 points unless otherwise specified. 40 points total.
Please use blue type for your answers (type anywhere on the blue line and the type should be
blue and bold).
1) Describe differences between a tableland plateau and erosional mountains? (2)
Tableland is usually a very flat plateau area, while erosional is complete dissection of a
plateau, usually forms rugged hilly areas.
2) Name a specific ridge or mountain in Tennessee that forms a tableland.
Cumberland Mountains
3a) Name three types of sedimentary rocks that are abundant on the Appalachian Plateau? (2)
sandstones shales conglomerates
3b) Where did these sedimentary rocks come from? (2)
erosion of the Appalachian Mountains
4) Name four erosional mountain areas of the Appalachian Plateau. (8)
Catskill Mountains
Ponco Mountains
Alleghany mountains
Cumberland Mountains
5) Which two of the erosional mountain areas listed in #4 above are located in Pennsylvania? (4)
Ponco Mountains
Alleghany Mountains
6) Rocks on the Appalachian Plateau are part of the nearly flat-lying structural form. More
specifically, what regional structure type more accurately describes these rocks? (2)
Valley and Ridge
7) Provide two reasons why erosional mountains are largely restricted to the eastern edge of the
Appalachian Plateau. (4)
1) rocks of the Appalachian plateau are folded into a syncline
2) most rivers flow westward, leaving the mountains higher along the side
8) The Appalachian Front overlooks which physiographic province? (2)
Allegheny plateau
9) Name the escarpment that forms the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau, and also name
the physiographic province to the west of this escarpment. (4)
Pottsville escarpment and Cumberland plateau
10) What type of structural form underlies Sequatchie Valley? (2)
anticline
11) Please answer true or false to the following questions. (6)
Erosional mountains can form without compressional stress.
false
Erosional mountains can form without a change in structural form.
true
Erosional mountains do not require uplift in order to form.
false
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