Ch 7.1 WS

True or False: In geology, stress is the force per unit area that is placed on rock.

• True

• False

True or False: Tension is the major type of stress at transform plate boundaries.

• True

• False

True or False: Sedimentary rocks that do not have horizontal layers have been deformed. True or False.

• True

• False

True or False: In an anticline, the youngest rocks are at the center.

• True

• False

True or False: In a normal fault, the footwall drops down relative to the hanging wall.

• True

• False

True or False: A rock’s response to stress depends only on the type of stress.

• True

• False

True or False: Basin-and-range landforms result from tension pulling crust apart.

• True

• False

Confining stress always causes folds or faults.

• True

• False

True or False: The oldest layers of sedimentary rock are on always the bottom unless rock layers have been disturbed.

• True

• False

True or False: Left-lateral and right-lateral faults are two types of dip-slip faults.

• True

• False