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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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1
At what kind of fault does the rock slide past the other side with little up or down motion?
sideways
normal
strike slip
reverse
2
What kind of stress pushes a mass of rock in 2 different directions, causing it to slip apart?
stress
shearing
tension
compression
3
What kind of fault is an angle, where the hanging wall moves downward?
reverse
serious
strike slip
normal
4
When a fault is at an angle, or slanted, what is the block of rock that lies above the other?
hanging wall
footwall
anticline
syncline
5
These pictures all show different kinds of ______________ .
tension
shearing
stress
compression
6
______________ can be created when forces in Earth's crust push up a large, flat block of rock.
Mountains
Anticlines
Plateaus
Synclines
7
What kind of stress pushes rock together, squeezing it until it folds or breaks?
shearing
stress
tension
compression
8
Where do most faults occur?
under the ocean
near mountain ranges
along plate boundaries
in a mass of rock
9
This picture is an example of ________________.
fault block mountains
a strike-slip fault
synclines caused by folding
anticlines caused by folding
10
What kind of stress stretches, so the rock becomes thinner?
shearing
compression
tension
stress
11
When a fault is at an angle, or slanted, what is the block of rock that lies below the other?
hanging wall
anticline
foot wall
syncline
12
A _____________ fault is slanted like a normal fault, but the hanging wall moves up and over.
strike slip
normal
reverse
climbing