Crust Deformations

What causes deformation of rock?

• Stress in the earth's crust
• water
• time
• tyme

What is a factor that influences the strength of a rock and how it will deform?

• temperature
• weight
• wind
• snow

Type of fold: downfolds or troughs

• anticlines

• synclines

• monoclines

• benchmarks

The major force that forms folded mountains.

• compressional force
• impression force 
• depressions force
• plateau

• syncline
• anticline

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

• syncline fold
• anticline fold
• syncline & anticline folds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The oldest layer of an anticline is located ___

• on an incline
• within a syncline
• in the center of the fold
• on the bottom of the fold

A fold where the youngest rock layer is in the center is called a(n) _____

• monocline.
• decline.
• syncline.
• anticline.

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3