Faults

The stress force that pushes the crust where two plates are moving together

• tension
• compression
• shear

The stress force that pulls plates past one another sideways is called

• shear
• compression
• tension

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of stress is this?

• compression
• shearing
• tension

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle!

• tension
• compression
• sheear
• rubber-binder

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement?

• shear
• compression
• tension
• constriction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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 cat is standing on the...

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

What fault has little up or down motion?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

This type of fault is....

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2