Earthquakes

A type of stress that pulls on rock and thins it in the middle

• stress

• fault

• tension

• compression

happens as a result of tension stress; the hanging wall slides down

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike slip fault

• anticlines

A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume

• stress

• fault

• anticline

• syncline

large area of flat land elevated high above sea level

• folded mountain

• fault block mountain

• plateau

• normal fault

An upward fold in the rock that makes an arch

• anticline

• syncline

• folded mountain

• fault block

Compression type waves, work like an accordion

• p waves

• s waves

• surface waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

an instrument used to record and earthquake's seismic waves

• anticlynes

• richter scale

• seismic waves

• seismometer

Type of stress that is a pulling apart, much like stretching a piece of bubble gum

• tension

• compression

• shearing

• strike slip

The Himalayas, the Alps, and the Applachians are examples of

• folded mountains

• fault block mountains

• plateaus

• faults

The type of fault pictured is a

• normal fault

• reverse fault

• strike slip fault

• compression fault