PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY PRACTICE QUIZ:
FOLDS AND FAULTS II
1. What do we call a fault in which the hanging wall moves up along the dip with respect to the footwall (as pictured)?
- A
- A normal fault
- B
- A strike-slip fault
- C
- A dip fault
- D
- A reverse fault
- E
- An anticlinal fault
2. What do we call a fold in which the rock layers are folded upward, with the limbs sloping up to the axis of the fold (as pictured)?
- A
- A thrust fold
- B
- A syncline
- C
- A recumbent fold
- D
- An anticline
- E
- A normal fold
3. True of False: A fault is always the result of tensional stress.
4. What do we call a fault in which the movement is horizontal along the strike?
- A
- A strike-slip fault
- B
- A reverse fault
- C
- A horizontal fault
- D
- A dip-slip fault
- E
- A thrust fault
5. What produces a reverse fault?
- A
- Tensional stress
- B
- Shear stress
- C
- Compressional stress
- D
- Shear stress
- E
- No stress
6. True or False: Synclines will always form valleys in the landscape.
7. What do we call a downdropped block of the crust, bounded by normal faults on each side?
8. The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a _____ fault in a _____ plate boundary.
- A
- a normal fault in a transform plate boundary
- B
- a strike-slip fault in a convergent plate boundary
- C
- a reverse fault in a transform plate boundary
- D
- a strike-slip fault in a transform plate boundary
- E
- a normal fault in a convergent plate boundary
9. The Sierra Nevada Mountains in California are primarily what kind of mountains?
10. Which of the following statements is true of the epicenter of an earthquake?
- A
- The epicenter is at Caltech in Pasadena, where the seismographs are located
- B :: The epicenter is the point on the Earth’s surface just above the location where movement on the fault began
- C
- The epicenter is a place on the fault where it intersects the surface
- D :: The epicenter is the point on the fault’s surface within the Earth where the rupture on the fault began
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