Test (Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Faults)

What type of fault is this? Caused by compression and found at convergent boundaries.

• Normal

• Reverse

• Strike-slip

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of fault is this? Caused by shearing and moving in opposite directions, these are found at transform boundaries.

• Normal

• Reverse

• Strike-slip

What type of fault is this? Caused by tension where plates are pulled apart, and are found at divergent boundaries.

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Forces that changes rock shape or volume is called

• tension

• compression

• stress

________________ pulls on crust which results in a normal fault.

• tension

• compressions

• stress

Type of plate boundary that causes the lithospheric plates to be pulled apart

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

Type of plate boundary that causes the lithospheric plates to move towards each other

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

Type of plate boundary that causes the lithospheric plates to move horizontally past each other

• Divergent

• Transform

• Compression

• Convergent

What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by a release of energy?

• Earthquake
• Epicenter
• Fault
• Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Where is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?

• Epicenter
• Fault
• Hypocenter
• Tremor