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Stress on Earth's crust

Total questions: 6

Worksheet time: 3mins

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1.

The movement of Earth's plates creates enormous forces that ...

a)

squeeze all rocks to the inner core

b)

squeeze or pull you to the epicenter

c)

squeeze or pull the rock in the crust

d)

happen every single day on mars

2.

What is stress?

a)

A force that makes the earth very upset

b)

A force that acts on buildings/skyscrapers

c)

Forces that can't change the shape or volume on Earth

d)

A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume

3.

How many kinds of stress can occur in Earth's crust?

a)

7

b)

3

c)

2

d)

5

4.

One kind of stress is tension that...

a)

pulls on the crust

b)

stretches rock so it becomes thinner in the middle

c)

squeezes rocks

d)

stretches and pushes rock further away

5.

Compression is...

a)

when rocks are pushed together

b)

pressing two rocks together

c)

squeezes rock until it folds or breaks

d)

when no stress occurs

6.

Shearing will..

a)

pushes a mass of rocks in the same direction

b)

push a mass of rock in two opposite directions

c)

causes masses of rock to slip

d)

cause stress to increase by five times the amount