Types of Faults

What do you call a crack in the Earth's surface where Earthquake is generated?

• CRUST

• TYPHOON

• FAULT

• EPICENTER

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

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.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• compression
• combining

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

• tightening
• tension

What type of stress is this?

• compression
• shearing
• tension

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault