Warm-up: Earthquakes, Rock Deformation, and Earth's Interior

What is a convergent boundary?

• When two plates move away from each other.
• When two plates move toward each other.

What is a fault?

• Any bending of rock layers

• A downward syncline like fold in a rock formation

• A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another

• Any brittle deformation of rock due to stress

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The bending of rock layers because of stress in earth's crust is called this.....

• Shear

• Folding

• Anticline

• Brittle

Which is a normal fault

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This type of fault occurs when the hanging wall moves up relative to the foot wall

• reverse fault

• normal fault

• thrust fault

• strike-slip faults

Stress that pushes rocks in parallel but opposite directions

• tension stress

• compression stress

• shear stress

• fault stress

What makes the inner core solid?

• Metals in the core are very light.
• Pressure at the core is very high.
• Chemicals in the core are very reactive.
• Temperatures in the core are very low.

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

Which layer contains BOTH the upper mantle and the crust?

• lithosphere
• atmosphere
• mesosphere
• athensosphere

The speed of seismic waves _____ through materials that are MORE dense. 

• increase
• decrease

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

How was the formation of the Earth similar to the formation of our solar system?

• The densest materials moved to the center.
• The densest materials moved to the outside.
• The densest materials moved to the middle layer.
• The densest materials were evenly distributed.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2