Crust Deformation

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

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

• Shear

• Folding

• Anticline

• Brittle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The overall bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust is known as what?

• deformation

• folding

• straining

• faulting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

In geology, the amount of force per unit area that acts on a rock is called...

• stress

• strain

• gerth

• pressure

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NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Stress that pushes rocks in parallel but opposite directions

• tension stress

• compression stress

• shear stress

• fault stress

Stress that stretches or pulls rock apart

• shear stress

• compression stress

• tension stress

• fault stress

Stress that squeezes or pushes rock together

• shear stress

• compression stress

• tension stress

• fault stress

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The study of the deformation and movement of rocks is called.....

• Sedimentary Paleontology

• Structural Geology

• Foundational Orogeny

• Stress Science