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GEOLOGIC PROCESS THAT SHAPES THE EARTH

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It pertains to any movement of the solid part of the Earth.

(a)  

2.

This process is true when it occurs under a continental mass.

(a)  

3.

Shaking of the Earth's surface is called (a)   .

4.

This theory which accounts for diastrophic movement and for the folding and faulting along the edges of the continents.

(a)  

5.

It is the movement of the Earth wherein the crust rises.

(a)  

6.

It states that as a rock from high regions is removed by erosion and deposited on a lower region.

(a)  

7.

Any fracture, without any movement is called (a)   .

8.

It refers to the direction in which a geological structure is present.

(a)  

9.

The horizontal movement of the Earth's crust.

(a)  

10.

It is the force acting on rock.

(a)  

11.

It occurs when stress acting on the rock is not equal in all directions.

(a)  

12.

Strain changes the shape or (a)   of a rock body caused by stress.

13.

The 3 type of differential stress are tensional, compressional and (a)   .

14.

Anticlines : ridges
Synclines : (a)  

15.

A stress wherein all the forces act equally from all directions.



(a)  

16.

A type of fault where there is a vertical movement along an inclined fault plane.



(a)  

17.

It is compressional stress causes rocks to buckle and fold.



(a)  

18.

Vertical movement along inclined fault plane such that one side rides up over the other. What type of fault is this?



(a)  

19.

It states that the Earth is gradually shrinking.

(a)  

20.

It both a vertical and horizontal component of motion along the fault.



(a)