Earthquake Faults

Stretching rock so it becomes thinner in the middle is what kind of stress?

• tension
• compression
• shearing

Squeezing rock until it breaks is what stress?

• tension
• compression
• shearing

The hanging wall slides up and over the footwall is what kind of fault?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

When the hanging wall slips downward below the footwall, what kind of fault is it?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The cat is standing on the...

• foot wall
• hanging wall
• left
• weirdest elevator ever

A type of fault where the hanging wall slides down...caused by tension.

• normal fault
• strike-slip fault
• reversynclinese fault

This type of fault is....

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2