Deformation of the Crust

Type of stress that stretches and pulls a body of rock apart.

The circum-Pacific and Eurasian-Melanesian are examples of these.

The bending , tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust.

Equilibrium in gravity and buoyancy between the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.

A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another.

Type of stress that squeezes and shortens rock.

Plateaus are

When two continents collide

What happens when two oceanic plates collide?

Which one of the following is NOT a type of mountain?

The rock above the fault plane.

Forms where faults break Earth's crust into large blocks that tilt and drop.

Shear stress

When the deposited material from a river into an ocean causes the ocean floor to sink. 

Any change in the shape or volume of a rock that results from stress

Which one of the following is NOT a type of stress?

A fold in which the oldest layer is in the center of the fold.

A strike-slip fault is caused by what kind of stress?

Volcanically active areas that lie far away from plate boundaries.

An adjective used to describe materials that respond to stress by bending.

A type of fault in which the hanging wall moves downward relative to the foot wall.

A bend in the rock layers from stress.

A series of mountains related in shape and structure.

A fault in which the hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.