ILL GIVE PLS IM BEING TIMED How are mountains formed?
by plateaus caving in
by land masses being eroded
by Earth’s crust being uplifted
by rain carving out an area of land

Earth’s crust is pushed up in big folds or forced up or down in blocks. So your answer is "By earth's crust being uplifted." Please mark as brainliest, hope this helps!

it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.