Chapter 5 Plate Boundaries and California

What is the location where plates move together?

• the kitchen
• lithosphere
• convergent boundaries
• divergent boundaries

What type of stress results when rock is pulled apart?

• shear
• subduction
• compression
• tension

Which describes the San Andreas Fault?

• a system of reverse faults
• a system of strike-slip faults
• a system of normal faults
• a great movie

What is formed when two plates of lithosphere are moving apart?

• strike-slip faults
• divergent boundaries
• ocean to ocean boundaries
• a volcano

Which is NOT a type of convergent plate collision?

• continent-to-lithosphere
• continent-to-continenet
• ocean-to-continent
• ocean-to-ocean

Faults produced where plates slide past each other are called what?

• normal
• reverse
• footwall
• strike-slip

Faults produced where rocks are pushed together are called what?

• normal
• reverse
• hanging wall
• strike-slip

Faults produced where rocks are pulled apart are called what?

• normal
• reverse
• footwall
• hanging wall

The block of wall that lies BELOW the fault is called the what?

• normal
• reverse
• hanging wall
• footwall

The block of wall that lies ABOVE the fault is called the what?

• normal
• reverse
• hanging wall
• footwall