Mountain Building Quiz 6th Grade

Mountains that form when tension makes the lithosphere break into many normal faults.

• Fault Block

• Volcanic Mountains

• Folded Mountains

• Mount Rushmore

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What kind of fault is this?

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Normal Fault

• Reverse Fault

The bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust: The change of shape of a rock in response to stress.

• deformation

• folding

• tension

• compression

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The bending of rock layers due to stress.

• deformation

• folding

• tension

• compression

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

• deformation

• folding

• fault

• compression

Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object.

• Tension

• Compression

• Deformation

• Shear Stress

What kind of fault is this?

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Normal Fault

• Reverse Fault

Stress that occurs when forces act in parallel but opposite directions, pushing parts of a solid in opposite directions.

• Tension

• Compression

• Deformation

• Shear Stress

Stress that occurs when forces act and squeeze an object.

• deformation

• folding

• tension

• compression

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

What kind of fault is this?

• Strike-Slip Fault

• Normal Fault

• Reverse Fault