Earthquake and Tsunamai Hazards

The force that acts upon a rock to change its shape or volume is called

• stress

• Tension

• Compression

• Shearing

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

There are three kinds of stress when talking about stress on the Earth's crust

• true

• false

this type of stress pulls on the earth's crust strectching the rock making it thinner

• stress

• tension

• Compression

• Shearing

This type of Stress squeezez rock until it bends or breaks

• Stress

• Compression

• Tension

• Shearing

This type of Stress occurs when rock is being pushed in two opposite directions

• stress

• tension

• compression

• shearing

What type of fault does the picture represent?

• Normal Fault
• Strike Slip Fault
• Reverse Fault

What type of fault does the picture represent?

• Normal Fault
• Strike-Slip Fault
• Reverse Fault

What type of fault does the picture represent?

• Strike-Flip Fault
• Normal Fault
• Reverse Fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Earthquakes can cause mountaians and valleys to appear

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Type of fold: downfolds or valleys, layers shaped like a u...

• anticlines

• synclines

• monoclines

• benchmarks