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Faults

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an Earthquake?

a)

A type of river in Missouri

b)

The shaking and trembling that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth’s surface

c)

The shaking that occurs when a volcano explodes

d)

A scientist

2.

Stress

a)

The feeling I get when I have a test

b)

A type of illnesss

c)

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

d)

A sock company

e)

A force that breaks a rock into millions of pieces

3.

Stress adds __________ to the rock

a)

Heated Magma

b)

Life

c)

Energy

d)

Environment

4.

Energy is stored until rocks break or change ___________

a)

Temperature

b)

Shape

c)

Weight

d)

Density

e)

Stuff

5.

Shearing (stress type)

a)

Pushes rocks in opposite directions

b)

Pushes rocks to their limits

c)

Divides rocks

d)

Brings rocks together

6.

Tension (stress type)

a)

Pulls apart until the middle is thin

b)

Pulls together until weather makes it go back

c)

Puts together a party

d)

Presses volcanoes together to make a mountain

7.

Compression

a)

Squeezes rocks together until it bends or breaks

b)

Divides rocks apart

c)

Rocks brush past each other

d)

Squeezes Earth and the moon together

8.

A fault is...

a)

When you do something by accident

b)

When you face plant

c)

A break in the Earth’s crust

d)

A break in your pizza crust

9.

Slabs of crust usually move...

a)

At a 90 degree angle

b)

Up, down, and sideways

c)

Diagonally

d)

In a random shape

10.

Faults occur...

a)

On Mountains

b)

In Space

c)

In Canada

d)

Plate Boundaries

11.

Strike-Slip faults are created by...

a)

Moto Moto

b)

Shearing

c)

Tension

d)

Compression

12.

Normal Faults are caused by...

a)

Fortnite Devs

b)

Tension

c)

Shearing

d)

Compression

13.

Reverse faults are caused by...

a)

Compression

b)

Tension

c)

Shearing

d)

The Simpsons

14.

The difference between a normal fault and reverse fault is...

a)

In a Reverse fault that the hang wall slides up over the footwall

b)

The normal fault wears matching clothes and the reverse fault does not

c)

The normal fault doesn’t look like a fault

d)

The normal fault is not caused by plate boundaries

15.

Friction is...

a)

What mittens are made out of

b)

A source of chemical energy

c)

What rocks are made up of

d)

The force that opposes motion of one surface as it moves across another surface

16.

Stress _________ until the friction force can be overcome

a)

Increases

b)

Decreases

c)

Stays the same

d)

Plays Fortnite

17.

When friction is overcome, the stress is released through a _______

a)

Tornado

b)

Earthquake

c)

Planet

d)

Blizzard