Earthquakes

Continental Drift occurs because of:

• Convection Currents
• Conduction Currents
• The Sun and the Earth are in a tug of war

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A break in the Earth's crust is called a:

• Fault
• Crack
• Break

Earthquakes occur when tectonic plates

• Slide
• Collide
• Divide
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

This type of stress ends up stretching the rock, making it thinner and causing it to break in the middle

• Tension
• Compression
• Shearing
• None of these options are correct

This type of stress causes rocks to get squeezed together until they break

• Tension
• Compression
• Shearing
• None of these options are correct

This type of stress pushes rock into two different directions

• Tension
• Compression
• Shearing
• None of these options are correct

What types of faults are there?

• Normal, Reverse and Strike Slip
• Anticline and Sincline
• Compression and Tension

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Folding of the Earth's Crust when it folds upward into an arch we call it:

• An Arch
• An Anticline
• A Sincline

Folding of the Earth's Crust when it folds downward to form a valley we call it a:

• An Arch
• An Anticline
• A Sincline

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Plates that move past each other at a Transform boundary create this type of fault.

• Strike Slip
• Sincline
• Reverse
• Normal