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I know it all
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Rocks R Me
You Crack me Up
100
Surface or outer most layer of the Earth
What is THE CRUST
100
The block of rock below the fault
What is THE FOOT WALL
100
A fault along which the blocks move horizontally past each other
What is A LATERAL FAULT
100
A bend in a rock
What is A FOLD
100
Cracks in rocks due to stress
What are FRACTURES
200
A fault where the hanging wall moves up in relation to the foot wall
What is a REVERSE FAULT
200
A structure formed by blocks of rock uplifted from normal faults
What are FAULT BLOCK MOUNTAINS
200
A structure formed when the block of land between 2 normal faults slides down
What is A RIFT VALLEY
200
An upward fold in a rock
What is AN ANTICLINE
200
A break or crack along which rocks move
What is A FAULT
300
Forces that push and pull on the Earth’s crust causing deformation
What is STRESS
300
The breaking, tilting, and folding of rocks
What is DEFORMATION
300
Type of stress that squeezes rocks together
What is COMPRESSION
300
Cracks in rocks due to stress
What is a FRACTURE
300
The block of rock above the fault
What is THE HANGING WALL
400
Type of stress that pulls rocks apart
What is TENSION
400
A half-sphere caused by magma pushing upward
What is A DOME
400
Large area of flat land raised high above sea level that is made of horizontal rock layers
What is A PLATEAU
400
Type of stress that pushes rocks in two opposite horizontal directions
What is SHEARING
400
A downward fold in a rock
What is A SYNCLINE
500
A reverse fault in which the hanging wall slides over the foot wall
What is a THRUST FAULT
500
A famous landmark in Yosemite National Park that is made from magma pushing up
What is HALF DOME
500
Hotter, softer rocks will do this when subjected to extreme stress
What is BEND or FOLD
500
Colder, stiffer rocks will tend to do this when subjected to stress
What is BREAK
500
The balancing of the downward force of the crust (lithosphere) and the upward force of the mantle (asthenosphere)
What is ISOSTASY
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