WorksheetsForces in Earth's Crust
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which type of fault is created by tension forces?
a)
Normal
b)
Reverse
c)
Strike-Slip
2.
Which type of stress creates a reverse fault?
a)
Tension
b)
Compression
c)
Shearing
3.
What is the term for a force that acts on rock to change its shape of volume?
a)
Tension
b)
Compression
c)
Stress
4.
What is a block of rock that slips downward in a normal fault and moves upward in a reverse fault?
a)
Hanging wall
b)
Footwall
c)
Anticline
d)
Syncline
5.
What is a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level?
a)
Mountain
b)
Plateau
c)
Footwall
6.
Which type of fault is created by compression forces?
a)
Normal
b)
Reverse
c)
Strike-slip
7.
What is a fold in a rock that bends upward into an arch?
a)
Syncline
b)
Plateau
c)
Anticline
8.
Which type of stress squeezes rock until it folds or breaks?
a)
Shearing
b)
Tension
c)
Compression
9.
Which type of fault is caused by shearing, where there is little upward or downward movement?
a)
Normal
b)
Tension
c)
Strike-Slip
10.
What is a fold in rock that bends downward into a valley?
a)
Anticline
b)
Syncline
c)
Plateau
11.
What is the bending of rock layers due to stress?
a)
Folding
b)
Compression
c)
Tension
d)
Fault
12.
A break in the body of rock along which one block slides relative to another.
a)
Fault
b)
Compression
c)
Tension
d)
Folding
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