Earth Science Chapter 5

Question 1

force which occurs when rock is squeezed

Accepted Answer

compression

Question 2

Where two plates move sideways past each other:

Accepted Answer

transform plate boundary

Question 3

What is formed when two plates of lithosphere are moving apart?

Accepted Answer

divergent boundaries

Question 4

Which is located along a divergent plate boundary?

Accepted Answer

Death Valley, Mid-ocean ridge

Question 5

At what boundary do plates move apart?

Accepted Answer

divergent

Question 6

What type of stress results when rock is pulled apart?

Accepted Answer

tension

Question 7

Which is not a form of stress that deforms rocks?

Accepted Answer

shear

Question 8

Where two plates of lithosphere are moving apart:

Accepted Answer

divergent plate boundary

Question 9

Which describes the San Andreas Fault?

Accepted Answer

system of strike-slip faults

Question 10

Which describes the movement of the Pacific Plate in California?

Accepted Answer

jerky

Question 11

Where two plates move toward each other:

Accepted Answer

convergent plate boundary

Question 12

What type of boundary cuts across the state of California?

Accepted Answer

Continental transform boundary

Question 13

What is the location where plates move together?

Accepted Answer

convergent boundaries

Question 14

How are plate boundaries classified?

Accepted Answer

by the way rocks on either side move

Question 15

force which occurs when rock is pushed in opposite directions

Accepted Answer

shear

Question 16

What happens when two oceanic plates move towards one another?

Accepted Answer

Subduction

Question 17

What happens when a rock breaks and slips along a normal fault?

Accepted Answer

The hanging wall slides down the footwall.

Question 18

Which type of stress makes the rocks thicker?

Accepted Answer

Compression

Question 19

Which is not a type of convergent plate collision?

Accepted Answer

continent-to-lithosphere

Question 20

the block of rock that lies below the fault

Accepted Answer

footwall

Question 21

force which occurs when rock is pulled apart

Accepted Answer

tension

Questions 21