Movement Of Earth's Crust 1 Question Preview (ID: 3178)
Vocabulary Terms Relating To Earth's Crust.
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The forces that push and pull on the Earth's crust, causing its deformation
a) chemical weathering
b) deposition
c) stress
d) erosion
The surface layer of the Earth
a) crust
b) dome
c) core
d) mantle
In geology, any change in the original shape or volume of rocks
a) compression
b) deformation
c) shearing
d) tension
The type of stress that squeezes rocks together
a) compression
b) shearing
c) fracture
d) tension
A type of stress that pulls rocks apart
a) compression
b) shearing
c) fracture
d) tension
A type of stress that pushes rocks of the crust in two opposite but horizontal directions
a) compresssion
b) shearing
c) fracture
d) tension
A break or crack in the rock, but the rock is not moving
a) fault
b) shearing
c) fracture
d) tension
A break or crack along which rocks move
a) fault
b) fracture
c) compression
d) tension
A mountain formed by blocks of rock uplifted from normal faults
a) rift valley
b) anticline
c) fault-block mountain
d) plateau
A valley formed when the block of land between two normal faults slides downward
a) rift valley
b) fault-block mountain
c) plateau
d) down valley
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