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Stress, Faults and plate boundaries
Stress, Faults and plate boundaries
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6th grade Earth Science, Faults, Stress, boundaries
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What kind of fault is an angle, where the hanging wall moves downward?
reverse
serious
normal
strike slip
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At what kind of fault does the rock slide past the other side with little up or down motion?
reverse
normal
strike slip
sideways
3
What kind of stress stretches, so the rock becomes thinner?
tension
compression
stress
shearing
4
______________ can be created when forces in Earth's crust push up a large, flat block of rock.
Anticlines
Mountains
Synclines
Plateaus
5
What kind of stress pushes a mass of rock in 2 different directions, causing it to slip apart?
stress
tension
shearing
compression
6
What kind of stress pushes rock together, squeezing it until it folds or breaks?
shearing
compression
tension
stress
7
This picture is an example of ________________.
a strike-slip fault
anticlines caused by folding
fault block mountains
synclines caused by folding
8
A _____________ fault is slanted like a normal fault, but the hanging wall moves up and over.
strike slip
reverse
climbing
normal
9
When a fault is at an angle, or slanted, what is the block of rock that lies above the other?
syncline
hanging wall
anticline
footwall
10
When a fault is at an angle, or slanted, what is the block of rock that lies below the other?
syncline
foot wall
hanging wall
anticline
11
These pictures all show different kinds of ______________ .
compression
stress
shearing
tension
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Where do most faults occur?
in a mass of rock
near mountain ranges
along plate boundaries
under the ocean