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Stress/Faults Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How does a reverse fault form?
a)
The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.
b)
Compression thrusts the fault into reverse.
c)
Blocks slide past each other.
d)
The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
2.
What type of stress is this?
a)
compression
b)
shearing
c)
tension
3.

What type of fault is this?

a)

normal fault

b)

reverse fault

c)

strike-slip fault

4.
a)
normal fault
b)
reverse fault
c)
strike-slip fault
5.

What type of mountains are these?

a)

fault-block mountains

b)

Dome mountains

c)

Volcanic mountains

d)

Folded Mountains

6.

What type of fault is shown here?

a)

normal fault

b)

reverse fault

c)

strike-slip fault

7.
a)
normal fault
b)
reverse fault
c)
strike-slip fault
8.

The red and white striped pole is on the

a)

hanging wall side

b)

footwall side

9.

What type of fault is shown on the map?

a)

normal fault

b)

reverse fault

c)

strike-slip fault

10.
The cat is standing on the...
a)
foot wall
b)
hanging wall
c)
left
d)
weirdest elevator ever
11.
A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume?
a)
stress
b)
focus
c)
friction
d)
fracture
12.
Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle!
a)
tension
b)
compression
c)
sheear
d)
rubber-binder
13.

Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement?

a)

constriction

b)

compression

c)

tension

d)

shear

14.
A type of fault where the hanging wall slides down...caused by tension.
a)
normal fault
b)
strike-slip fault
c)
reversynclinese fault
15.
The stress force that pushes the crust where two plates are moving apart
a)
tension
b)
compression
c)
shearing
16.

What type of stress would occur at subduction zones?

a)

tension

b)

compression

c)

shear

17.

What type of fault would most likely occur at a convergent plate boundary?

a)

normal fault

b)

reverse fault

c)

slip strike fault

18.

What type of fold is shown in the picture?

a)

syncline

b)

anticline

c)

monocline

19.

What type of fold is shown in the picture?

a)

Anticline

b)

Syncline

c)

Monocline

20.

What type of stress created this fold?

a)

compression

b)

tension

c)

shearing