Folding and Faulting

How does folding affect Earth's surface?

• Folding causes the crust to buckle, and over time, to rise up and form mountains.

• Folding causes the crust to sink.

• Folding causes the crust to bend in half.

• Folding has no effect on Earth's surface.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Why is it dangerous to live along a fault line?

• It's not dangerous at all!

• The plates are sliding past each other here and this can cause serious changes to the landscape, including a fracture in the crust.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which type of stress occurs at convergent boundaries where plates push into each other?

• tension

• compression

• shear

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Which type of stress occurs at transform boundaries where plates slide past each other?

• tension

• compression

• shear

Identify the type of fault:

• Normal

• Reverse (thrust)

• Strike-Slip

• This is not a fault

What type of fault is this?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Insurgent

____ is a normal fault.

• A

• B

• C

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

____ is a strike-slip fault.

• A

• B

• C

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

____ is a reverse fault.

• A

• B

• C

What is syncline?

• A downfolded portion of rock layers.

• An upfolded portion of rock layers.

• A word Ms. Powell made up.