Faults

Normal faults are associated with this type of plate boundary?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• transect

What type of fault is this?

• Normal
• Reverse
• Strike-slip

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of fault is this?

• Normal
• Reverse
• Strike-slip

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of fault is this?

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The East African Rift Zone is an example of which type of fault?

• transform

• normal

• reverse

• strike-slip

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The Rocky Mountains are an example of which type of fault zone?

• Transform

• Strike-Slip

• Normal

• Reverse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a break in the Earth's crust along which rocks move

• fault

• deformation

• intrusion

• extrusion

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

• 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

What type of stress caused the fault?

• shearing
• tension
• compression