Types of Faults

A type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways is called:

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

How does a reverse fault form?

• The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.
• Compression thrusts the fault into reverse.
• Blocks slide past each other.
• The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.

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

Which of these boundaries/stresses/faults all correctly go together?  Choose all that apply.

• normal, divergent, tension
• reverse, convergent, shearing
• strike-slip, transform, compression

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Rock layers undergo stress when they are squeezed at convergent boundaries. This stress is called:

• compression
• combining

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Rock layers undergo stress when they are stretched apart at divergent boundaries. This stress is called:

• tightening
• tension

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The surface along which rock break and slide past each other is called a:

• fracture
• fault
• joint

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways is called:

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

What type of stress is this?

• compression
• shearing
• tension