1. What could be the probable cause of the breaking of Pangea into seven continents?

A. Compression Stress
C. Shear Stress
B. Confining Stress
D. Tension Stress

2. Which type of fault was formed when the "hanging wall moves down relative to the "footwall"?

A. Normal Fault
B. Reverse Fault
C. Stress Fault
D. Strike-Slip Fault

3. Which of the following best describes a fault? It is a

A. bend in the layers of bedrock.
B. breaking or cracking of rock structure C. deformation that causes change in Earth's surface
D. fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. :

4. In the statements written below, what is TRUE about earthquakes?
1. Earthquakes can be caused by normal, reverse, and strike-slip ſaulting.
II. Most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries.
lll. P waves travel faster than both S waves and Surface waves
IV. The time and location of most major earthquakes can be predicted several days in advance.

A. I only
B. I and II only
C. I, II, and Ill only
D 1, 11, III and IV only

5. What happens when friction between the opposite sides of a fault is high?

A. A plateau may form on one side of the fault
B. Folding of the crust may occur
C. The fault locks, and stress builds up until an earthquake occurs
D. The rocks on both sides of the fault easily slide past each other

6. Which statement will BEST describe the illustration in Figure 1?

A. A dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below.
B. A dip-slip fault in whicn the upper block, above the fault the plane moves up and over the lower block.
C. A fault on which the two blocks slide past one another
D. None of the above


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