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Forces in Earth's Crust

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name

Class

Date

Tension occurs where two plates slip past each other.

False

True

The stress force that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks is called compression.

True

False

Very few faults occur along plate boundaries.

True

False

The Rio Grande River flows through a valley where tension in the Earth's crust has resulted in a normal fault.

True

False

A reverse fault forms where compression pushes the rock of the crust together.

True

False

The San Andreas fault in California is an example of a normal fault.

True

False

Folded mountains are formed by compression caused by colliding plates.

True

False

Anticlines are folds in rock that bend downward into a V shape.

True

False

The stress force that pulls on the crust and thins rock in the middle.

shearing

compression

tension

uplifting

10.

A fault in which the rocks on either side of the fault move sideways past each other is a

strike slip fault

normal fault

hanging fault

reverse fault

11.

What type of fault is this?

normal fault

reverse fault

strike-slip fault

12.

What type of fault is this?

Normal

Reverse

Strike-slip

13.

Forces that changes rock shape or volume is called

tension

compression

stress

14.

Which type of force is involved with this type of fault?

Compression

Tension

Shear

15.

Which type of fault is this (stress pushing in on both sides)?

Normal

Reverse

Strike-Slip

16.

Match the following fault types with the type of stress that causes them.

fault-slip

shearing

normal

tension

reverse

compression

17.

Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement is called __________ stress.

shearing

compression

tension

constriction

18.

What type of fault happens at a convergent plate boundary?

Normal

Reverse

Strike-Slip

None of these

19.

What type of fault happens at a divergent plate boundary?

Normal

Reverse

Strike-Slip

None of these

20.

What type of fault happens at a transform plate boundary?

Normal

Reverse

Strike-Slip

None of these

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Forces in Earth's Crust

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

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