Stress
Faults
Landforms
Other terms
MISC
100
Stress that squeezes rocks together
What is compression
100
A crack in a rock
What is a fracture
100
A bend in a rock
What is a fold
100
Block of rock above the fault
What is a HANGING wall
100
1) What does this motion represent?
What is normal fault
200
Stress that pulls rocks apart
What is Tension
200
A crack along which rocks move
What is a fault
200
An UPWARD fold in a rock
What is an ANTICLINE
200
The breaking, tilting, and folding of rocks
What is DEFORMATION
200
2) What does this object represent?
What is a foot wall
300
Stress that pushes rocks in opposite horizontal directions
What is Shearing
300
Fault where hanging wall moves down along the foot wall
What is a NORMAL fault
300
DOWNWARD fold in a rock
What is a SYNCLINE
300
A block of rock BELOW the fault
What is a FOOT wall
300
3) What does this object represent?
What is a hanging wall
400
Forces that push and pull on the Earth's crust
What is STRESS
400
Fault where hanging wall moves up along the foot wall
What is a REVERSE fault
400
A half sphere caused by magma pushing upward
What is a DOME
400
4) What does this motion represent?
What is Compression
400
Formed when land between 2 normal faults slides down
What is a RIFT VALLEY
500
What type of stress am I creating?
What is Tension
500
A fault along which rocks move horizontally past each other
What is a LATERAL fault
500
Mountain formed by rocks uplifted by normal faults
What is a Fault Block Mountain
500
Area of flat land raised up high above sea level
What is a PLATEAU
500
A Reverse fault where the hanging wall slides over foot wall
What is a THRUST fault
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