Strike-Slip Fault
Reverse Fault
Normal Fault
True or False
100
What causes a Strike-Slip fault?
when rocks slide past each other horizontally with little vertical movement?
100
What causes of a Reverse Fault?
when a block of crust slides on top of another block of crust
100
What is the cause of a normal Fault?
when two blocks of crust pull apart and stretch the crust into a valley
100
Tectonic plates move
True
200
 a strike-slip fault that occurred in California  
Where is the San Andreas fault
200
Where are reverse faults commonly found?
 a collision zone
200
Where is an example of a normal fault?
 the East African Rift Zone?
200
Strike-slip faults are destructive
True
300
What is one of the most destructive thing a strike-slip fault has done?
 Strike-Slip fault caused the San Francisco earthquake of 1906
300
What is another name for a reverse fault?
A thrust fault
300
where do normal faults generally occur
they occur in places where the lithosphere is being stretched
300
At transform boundaries crust can be created and destroyed
False
400
where do strike-slip faults usually occur?  
in areas where a plate is very slowly splitting apart
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