Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Quiz

Stress is a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume.

• True
• False

The collision of two plates causes the formation of folded mountains.

• True
• False

When two plates move away from each other reverse faults are created.

• True
• False

A large area of flat land elevated high above sea level is a normal fault.

• True
• False

Tension can cause the formation of fault-block mountains and folded mountains.

• True
• False

A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch is a anticline.

• True
• False

The stress force that pulls on the crust and thins rock in the middle is

• shearing
• compression
• tension
• uplifting

The stress force that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks is

• shearing
• compression
• tension
• uplifting

A fault in which the rocks on either side of the fault move sideways past each other is a

• slip-strike fault
• normal fault
• hanging fault
• reverse fault

Compression causes the formation of

• only anticlines
• only synclines
• both anticlines and synclines
• neither anticlines nor synclines