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What is the force that acts on rock to chage its shape or volume?
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Stress
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What are 3 different kinds of stress that can occur in the crust?
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Tension. compression, and shearing.
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what pulls on the crust streching rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle?
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Tension
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What squeezes the rock until it folds or breaks?
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Compression
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What pushes a mass of rock in 2 opposite directions?
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Shearing
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What are the 3 main types of faults?
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Normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults
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What is the block of rock that lies above the fault?
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Hanging wall
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What is the rock that lies below?
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Footwall
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What kind of fault has the same structure as a normal fault, but the blocks move in the opposite...
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Reverse fault
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What kind of fault is at an angle and one block of rock lies above the fault while the other...
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Normal fault
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