Earthquakes and Faults

1. When the movement of Earth's plates creates great force that squeezes or pulls a rock that causes it to change shape or volume is known as

2. A break in the rock where rock or crust slip past each other is called a

3. The types of stress are known as

A) tension, shearing, and strike-slip.
B) footwall, tension, and compression.
C) normal, lateral, and reverse/thrust.
D) tension, compression, and shearing.

4. When rock bends without breaking, this is known as

A) syncline.
B) faults.
C) anticline.
D) compression folds.

5. Primary waves are the

A) first and fastest waves.
B) first and slowest waves.
C) second and fastest waves
D) second and slowest waves.

6. Secondary waves are the

A) second and slowest waves.
B) first and slowest waves.
C) first and fastest waves.
D) second and fastest waves.

7. Stress where the earth slides past each other is known as

A) compression.
B) shearing.
C) tension.

8. Stress where rock is being squeezed together is known as

A) shearing.
B) tension.
C) compression.

9. When old earth is melted down and new earth is being formed from magma under the ocean is

10. The theory that plates are always moving is due to the theory of

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