Folding and Faulting

Folding and Faulting

8th Grade

15 Qs

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Folding and Faulting

Folding and Faulting

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS2-3, MS-ESS2-2

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

Used 5+ times

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15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What type of stress squeezes the rock until it breaks?

tension

compression

shearing

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

strike-slip

normal

reverse

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

strike-slip

normal

reverse

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What type of stress forms reverse faults? 

tension

compression

shearing

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

Compression

Divergent

Normal

Convergent

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The type of fault created from shear stress is

reverse fault

strike-slip fault

normal fault

Moho Fault

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

normal fault reverse fault left lateral strike-slip fault right lateral strike-slip fault

normal fault

reverse fault

left lateral strike-slip fault

right lateral strike-slip fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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