Earthquake Faults

Stretching rock so it becomes thinner in the middle is what kind of stress?

• tension
• compression
• shearing

Squeezing rock until it breaks is what stress?

• tension
• compression
• shearing

The hanging wall slides up and over the footwall is what kind of fault?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

What fault has little up or down motion?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

When the hanging wall slips downward below the footwall, what kind of fault is it?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

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

The surface along which rock break and slide past each other is called a:

• fracture
• fault
• joint

A type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways is called:

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault