E.S. Ch 11 Deformation of the Crust

If material is added to a plate (sediment on ocean floor) the crust will ____.

Balanced forces on the crust pushing down and up are called ___.

This type of stress pulls rocks apart and makes them thinner.

Collision between a continental plate and and oceanic plate could produce ___. 

Major cause of deformation of the crust is ___.

The largest groups of mountains on the earth are called ___.

The diagram below could have formed the ___.

Permanent deformation of rock without the rock breaking is called ___.

A change in the shape or volume of crustal rock due to stress is called ___. 

Type of mountains in which faulting causes large blocks of the earth's crust to drop down.

A thrust fault is a special type of ___.

Most plateaus are found ___.

Folding of rocks happens when the rocks undergo __.

A group of adjacent mountain ranges makes us a mountain ___.

Up and down motion of the crust is called ___.

This type of stress reduces the volume of rocks.

What type of force is acting on the rocks in this diagram?

Strike slip faults occur along  ___. 

What causes reverse faults?

In this diagram the hanging wall in on the ___.

The type of stress that pushes rocks horizontally.

What type of fault is shown here?

Which form along convergent boundaries?

The rock below the fault plane is the ___.