ROCK BEHAVIOR UNDER STRESS

What type of fold is formed when a compressive stress resulted to a landmass that arches upward?

• Anticline

• Incline

• Monocline

• Syncline

What happened to the rocks under shear stress?

• The rocks are squeezed

• The rocks fold or fracture.

• The rocks are pulled apart.

• The rock walls slip to each other on opposite direction.

Mountains are a result of high-impact stress caused when two plates collided. What kind of stress caused it to form?

• compressional stress

• rock stress

• shear stress

• tensional stress

What will happen to the rock if it is exposed to a tension stress?

• Rocks will be pulled apart

• Rocks will be compressed

• Rocks will fold or form fracture

• Rocks will be squeezed together

Which of the following type of stress is exerted in convergent plate boundaries?

• Compressional stress

• Direct stress

• Shear stress

• Tensional stress

Which of the following type of fault is found in divergent plate boundaries?

• Normal

• Reverse

• Strike Slip

• Transverse

Which of the following type of fault system creates the world’s highest mountain ranges?

• Normal

• Reverse

• Strike Slip

• Transverse

Ava plays a clay bar. She pushed the two sides of the clay bar using equal force from her hands on the same axis. What type of stress did she exerted on the clay bar?

• Compressional stress

• Direct stress

• Shear stress

• Tensional stress

A rock fracture or cracks due to stress

• FAULT

• FOLD

• TENSION

• SYNCLINE

Reverse fault formed through the stress that causes the hanging wall to move up. Which among the following are the result of this type of fault?

• Himalayas

• East African Rift

• Marikina Fault

• West Valley