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Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is an Earthquake?
A type of river in Missouri
The shaking and trembling that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth’s surface
The shaking that occurs when a volcano explodes
A scientist
Stress
The feeling I get when I have a test
A type of illnesss
A force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume
A sock company
A force that breaks a rock into millions of pieces
Stress adds __________ to the rock
Heated Magma
Life
Energy
Environment
Energy is stored until rocks break or change ___________
Temperature
Shape
Weight
Density
Stuff
Shearing (stress type)
Pushes rocks in opposite directions
Pushes rocks to their limits
Divides rocks
Brings rocks together
Tension (stress type)
Pulls apart until the middle is thin
Pulls together until weather makes it go back
Puts together a party
Presses volcanoes together to make a mountain
Compression
Squeezes rocks together until it bends or breaks
Divides rocks apart
Rocks brush past each other
Squeezes Earth and the moon together
A fault is...
When you do something by accident
When you face plant
A break in the Earth’s crust
A break in your pizza crust
Slabs of crust usually move...
At a 90 degree angle
Up, down, and sideways
Diagonally
In a random shape
Faults occur...
On Mountains
In Space
In Canada
Plate Boundaries
Strike-Slip faults are created by...
Moto Moto
Shearing
Tension
Compression
Normal Faults are caused by...
Fortnite Devs
Tension
Shearing
Compression
Reverse faults are caused by...
Compression
Tension
Shearing
The Simpsons
The difference between a normal fault and reverse fault is...
In a Reverse fault that the hang wall slides up over the footwall
The normal fault wears matching clothes and the reverse fault does not
The normal fault doesn’t look like a fault
The normal fault is not caused by plate boundaries
Friction is...
What mittens are made out of
A source of chemical energy
What rocks are made up of
The force that opposes motion of one surface as it moves across another surface
Stress _________ until the friction force can be overcome
Increases
Decreases
Stays the same
Plays Fortnite
When friction is overcome, the stress is released through a _______
Tornado
Earthquake
Planet
Blizzard
