Fault

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

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

How does a reverse fault form?

• The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.

• Compression thrusts the fault into reverse.

• Blocks slide past each other.

• The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

• strike-slip

• normal

• reverse

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

• strike-slip

• normal

• reverse

Which of these boundaries/stresses/faults all correctly go together?  Choose all that apply.

• normal, divergent, tension

• reverse, convergent, shearing

• strike-slip, transform, compression

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

The cat is standing on the...

• foot wall

• hanging wall

• left

• weirdest elevator ever

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What type of fault is characterized by the horizontal movement of rocks past each other?

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault

What type of fault is characterized by the horizontal movement of rocks past each other?

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike-slip fault