Earth's Crust Adventure QUIZ

Tension stress will form what type of fault?

• Normal Fault
• Strike-slip fault
• Reverse fault
• Divergent

Compression stress is known to cause

• strike-slip faults
• normal faults
• compression faults
• reverse faults

The type of fault created from shear stress is

• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault
• normal fault
• Moho Fault

Materials that respond to stress by bending or deforming without breaking are

• brittle

• ductile

• faulted

• isostatic

This is a mountain that forms where rock layers are squeezed and uplifted?

• folded mountain

• volcanic mountain

• dome mountain

• fault-blocked mountain

A mountain formed when magma erupts onto Earth's surface.

• fault-block mountain

• volcanic mountain

• folded mountain

• dome mountain

A mountain that forms where faults break large blocks from Earth's crust; the rocks drop relative to other blocks.

• volcanic mountain

• fault-block mountain

• dome mountain

• folded mountain

What is deformation?

• Process when the rocks break apart or erode.
• Process of when rocks melt away. 
• Process when rocks change shape under pressure.
• Process when 

What are the two types of folding?

• Horizontal and Vertical
• Synclines and Anticlines
• Up and down
• Bottom and Top

The principle of _____ states that Earth's crust and lithosphere float on the upperpart of the mantle.

• collide
• subduction
• isostasy