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- 1stressforce that acts on rock to change its shape or volume
- 2tensionpulls on the crust stretching rock thinner in the middle
- 3compressionsqueezes rock until it folds and breaks
- 4shearingpushes a mass of rock in two opposite direction
- 5faultbreak in the earths crust where rocks have slipped past each other
- 6normal gaulttension in earths crust pulls rock apart
- 7reverse faultformed by compression where the rock of the crust is pushed together
- 8strike slip faultshearing where plates move past each other
- 9foldbend in rock that forms where part of the earth crust is compressed
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