Stress and Strain Earth Science

Rock layers undergo stress when they are stretched apart at divergent boundaries. This stress is called:

• tightening
• tension
• compression
• shearing

Which stress causes no land to be gained or lost?

• compression
• tension
• shearing

Stretching rock so it becomes thinner in the middle is what kind of stress?

• tension
• compression
• shearing

What type of stress squeezes the rock until it breaks?

• tension
• compression
• shearing

In which type of fault does the hanging wall slide up and over the footwall?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

What fault has little up or down motion?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

When the hanging wall slips downward below the footwall, what kind of fault is it?

• strike-slip
• normal
• reverse

Compression is the type of stress that causes the crust to become thinner in the middle.

• True 
• False

What type of stress forms reverse faults? 

• tension
• compression
• shearing

A reverse fault would be found at what type of boundary?

• Compression
• Divergent
• Normal
• Convergent