Folds and Faults

What causes deformation of rock?

• Stress in the earth's crust
• water
• time
• tyme

Please name one type of stress

• strain
• compressional
• fujiism
• shape

Please name another type of stress.

• jello
• tensional
• pre-tensional
• glacier

What is a factor that influences the strength of a rock and how it will deform?

• temperature
• weight
• wind
• snow

Type of fold: downfolds or troughs

• anticlyns
• synclines
• monoclines
• benchmarks

The collection of processes that produce a mountain belt.

• orogenisis
• compressional forces
• folded mountains
• fault mountains

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The major force that forms folded mountains.

• compressional force
• impression force 
• depressions force
• plateau

True or False
Normal faulting occurs where tensional stresses cause the crust to be stretched.

• True
• False

True or False
Grabens produce an elongated valley borded by horsts.

• True 
• False

True or False

Most mountain building occurs ate Convergent plate boundaries.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1