Earth Quake Faults

Multiple Choice

What type of fault is this?

• Normal
• Reverse
• Strike-slip

Multiple Choice

What type of fault is this?

• Normal
• Reverse
• Strike-slip

Multiple Choice

What type of fault is this?

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

Multiple Choice

Forces that changes rock shape or volume is called

• tension

• compression

• stress

Multiple Choice

Reverse faults have __________________ and folding that formed the Alps and Himalayas.

• tension

• compression

• stress

Multiple Choice

________________ pulls on crust which results in a normal fault.

• tension

• compressions

• stress

Multiple Choice

Normal faults occur at a divergent boundary.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Strike slip faults move by ____________________.

• pulling apart

• pushing together

• slipping past each other

Multiple Choice

Which type of force is involved with this type of fault?

• Compression

• Tension

• Shear

Multiple Choice

Which type of fault is this (stress pushing in on both sides)?

• Normal

• Reverse

• Strike-Slip

Match

Match the following fault types with the type of stress that causes them.

• fault-slip

• normal

• reverse

shearing

tension

compression

• shearing

• tension

• compression

Multiple Choice

A break in Earth’s crust along which rocks move is called ___________

• stress

• compression

• dormat

• fault

Multiple Choice

Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement is called __________ stress.

• shearing

• compression

• tension

• constriction