Folding and Faulting II
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1	A fault in which the hanging wall moves up along the dip with respect to the footwall, as shown, is a(n)
			normal fault
			strike-slip fault
			dip fault
			reverse fault
			anticlinal fault
2	A fold in which the rock layers are folded upward, with the limbs sloping up to the axis of the fold, is a(n)
			thrust fold
			syncline
			recumbent fold
			anticline
			normal fold
3	A fault is always the result of tensional stress.
			True
			False
4	A fault in which the movement is horizontal along the strike is a ____________ fault.
			strike-slip
			reverse
			horizontal
			dip-slip
			thrust
5	A reverse fault is the result of ___________ stress.
			tensional
			shear
			compressional
			shear
			no
6	Synclines will always form valleys in the landscape.
			True
			False
7	A downdropped block of the crust, bounded by normal faults on each side, is a
			horst
			normal block
			graben
			syncline
			anticline
8	The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ______________ fault in a ___________ plate boundary.
			normal; transform
			strike-slip; convergent
			reverse; transform
			strike-slip; transform
			normal; convergent
9	The Sierra Nevada Mountains in California are primarily _________________ mountains.
			folded
			volcanic
			fault-block
			warped
			overthrust
10	The epicenter of an earthquake is
			at Caltech in Pasadena, where the seismographs are located
			the point on the Earth's surface just above the location where movement on the fault began
			always located on the fault where it intersects the surface
			the point on the fault's surface within the Earth where the rupture on the fault began

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