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Earthquakes and Faults
Contributed by: Ridosh
  • 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) tension, compression, and shearing.
C) normal, lateral, and reverse/thrust.
D) footwall, tension, and compression.
  • 4. When rock bends without breaking, this is known as
A) faults.
B) compression folds.
C) anticline.
D) syncline.
  • 5. Primary waves are the
A) second and fastest waves
B) first and slowest waves.
C) second and slowest waves.
D) first and fastest waves.
  • 6. Secondary waves are the
A) first and fastest waves.
B) second and slowest waves.
C) first and slowest waves.
D) second and fastest waves.
  • 7. Stress where the earth slides past each other is known as
A) shearing.
B) compression.
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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