Types of Faults (Grade 6)
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Types of Faults
1.
A is created when rocks move past each other side by side.
- strike-slip fault
- normal fault
- reverse fault
2.
What type of fault does the diagram represent?

- ring
- normal
- reverse
- strike-slip
3.
What type of fault does the diagram represent?

- ring
- normal
- reverse
- strike-slip
4.
When the rock above the fault surface moves down relative to the rock below the fault surface, what kind of fault forms?
- normal
- strike-slip
- reverse
- shear
5.
What type of fault does the diagram represent?

- ring
- normal
- reverse
- strike-slip
6.
What type of fault usually occurs because of compression?
- folded
- normal
- strike-slip
- reverse
7.
On the fault diagram, the rock to the left of the fault is called the and the rock to the right of the fault is called the .

- hanging wall; footwall
- footwall; hanging wall
- right-lateral wall; left-lateral wall
- left-lateral wall; right-lateral wall
8.
Normal faults form mainly by and reverse faults form mainly by .
- shear; tension
- tension; shear
- compression; tension
- tension; compression
9.
Which fault shown below forms from compressional forces?
10.
Which fault shown below forms under tensional forces?
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