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Folding and Faulting and Stratification

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is a type of Stress?

a)

Compression

b)

Shear

c)

Tension

d)

All of these are types of Sress

2.

The picture shows a type a movement resulting from the compression of Rocks.

a)

Faulting

b)

Folding

c)

Stratification

d)

Tension

3.

The Himalayan Mountains is an example of what kind of rock formation?

a)

Teansion

b)

Faulting

c)

Folding

d)

Cutting

4.

The picture shows  a folded rocks that arch upward and dip away from the center

of the fold. This type of Folding is called?

(a)  

5.

A type of movement that form cracks or fractures in rocks. The cracks are called fault lines.

a)

Faulting

b)

Folding

c)

Anticline

d)

Syncline

6.

This type of Fault forms when the hanging wall drops down. The forces that create this kind of fault are pulling the sides apart or extensional

(a)  

7.

What happens to reverse fault?

a)

Hanging wall drops down

b)

Both walls move sideways

c)

Forces are pulling the sides apart (Extensional)

d)

The force is compressional, pushing the sides together

8.

What condition can rocks be folded?

a)

Must be located in a lower area

b)

Must have low and high pressure

c)

Must have low temperature

d)

Must have High Temperature

9.

Which among the pictures shows SYNCLINE (Folding)?

a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

Which among the pictures shows Transverse fault?

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

(a)   are layered earth materials, deposited as successive beds of sediment and solidified by compaction, cementation, or crystallization.

12.

The picture shows the process of what kind of rock formation?

a)

Stratified Rocks

b)

Sedimentary Rocks

c)

Metamorphic Rocks

d)

Igneous rocks

13.

Based from the radioactive isotopic dating of meteorites, Earth is Approximately (a)   years old.

14.

Preserved in rocks are the remains and traces of plants and animals that have lived and died through-out Earth's History.

(a)  

15.

A Naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more minerals. It is categorized by the minerals included, its chemical composition and the way in which it is formed.

a)

Element

b)

Mineral

c)

Rock

d)

Substance