Vocab 4.4

Question 1

Compression

Answer 1

Stress that occurs when forces act to squeeze an object.

Question 2

Tension

Answer 2

Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object.

Question 3

Folding

Answer 3

The bending of rock layers due to stress.

Question 4

Anticline

Answer 4

Upward arching folds.

Question 5

Synclines

Answer 5

Downward troughtlike folds.

Question 6

Monocline

Answer 6

When rock layers are folded at both ends making them horizontal.

Question 7

Deformation

Answer 7

Process when the shape of a rock changes because of stress.

Question 8

Fault

Answer 8

A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another..

Question 9

Hanging Wall

Answer 9

A wall where you have to use a rope to climb up.

Question 10

Footwall

Answer 10

A wall where you can rest your foot on.

Question 11

Normal Fault

Answer 11

When the hanging Wall moves down relative to the Footwall.

Question 12

Reverse Fault

Answer 12

The Hanging wall moves up relative to the Footwall.

Question 13

Strike-slip fault

Answer 13

When a Transform Boundary occurs.

Question 14

Folded Mountains

Answer 14

Formed when rock layers squeeze together and uplifts.