6.2.1 Forces in Earth's Crust 2022-23

Tension occurs where two plates slip past each other.

• False
• True

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

• True
• False

Very few faults occur along plate boundaries.

• True
• False

The Rio Grande River flows through a valley where tension in the Earth's crust has resulted in a normal fault.

• True
• False

A reverse fault forms where compression pushes the rock of the crust together.

• True
• False

The San Andreas fault in California is an example of a normal fault.

• True
• False

Folded mountains are formed by compression caused by colliding plates.

• True
• False

Anticlines are folds in rock that bend downward into a V shape.

• True
• False

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

• shearing
• compression
• tension
• uplifting

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

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