Earth Practice Test

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Which is not a type of Earth stress?
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The San Andreas Fault is what type of fault?
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What kind of boundary allows Subduction to occur?
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What is the area called on land where a divergent boundary lowers the elevation?
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As crust is created at mid-ocean ridges it is destroyed by Subduction into the mantle?
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The hanging wall moves up the footwall at what type of fault?
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Shearing is the stress that powers strike-slip faults?
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What is the stress that makes a normal fault?
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The starting point of an earthquake is called the ________?
10.
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What is the upward fold of a mountain called?
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What is the stress that brings plates together (reverse fault)?
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At which of these is crust neither created nor destroyed?
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Which is not evidence of continental drift?
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What is the reason plates move?
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Plates scrape past each other in opposite directions at divergent boundaries?
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What portion of Earth is split into tectonic plates?
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Hawaii formed at a _________?
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Continental plates are denser than oceanic plates?
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Earthquakes start in the lithosphere?
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What are the seismic waves that move back and forth like an accordion?