Flashcards
Earth Structures and Mass Wasting
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- 1—Anticline
- 2What is a rock's response to applied forces called?Strain
- 3—Monocline
- 4—Syncline
- 5What type of fault occurs at an Ocean-Ocean convergent boundary?Thrust
- 6—Monocline
- 7—Anticline
- 8—Syncline
- 9Rocks form faults due to what type of deformation?Brittle
- 10—Monocline
- 11What is the most common type of weathering in deserts?Salt Wedging
- 12—Syncline
- 13—Anticline
- 14What is the second step to locating the epicenter of an earthquake?Find on the graph where the vertical separation between the P and S curves is equal to the interval determined in Step 1.
- 15—Normal Fault
- 16—Reverse Fault
- 17—Strike-Slip Fault
- 18What do seismic waves that continue past a boundary do?They Bend or Refract
- 19—Reverse Fault
- 20What type of fault occurs at a transform boundary?Strike-Slip
- 21—Normal Fault
- 22—Normal Fault
- 23—Reverse Fault
- 24What type of stress does a reverse fault have?Compression
- 25What type of stress does a normal fault have?Tension
- 26—Creep
- 27What type of stress does a strike-slip fault have?Shear
- 28—Fall
- 29What is another name for a low angle reverse fault?Thrust
- 30—Flow
- 31—Creep
- 32What is the third step to locating the epicenter of an earthquake?From the point established in Step 2, draw a vertical line to the bottom of the graph to find the distance to the epicenter.
- 33—Fall
- 34—Flow
- 35—Joint
- 36What type of fault occurs at a divergent boundary?Normal
- 37—Slide
- 38—Joint
- 39—Liquefaction
- 40Mass Wasting depends on the balance between what two things?Gravity and Friction
- 41—Liquefaction
- 42How does a Monocline fold form?An ancient fault in bedrock reactivates causing sedimentary rock layers to drape over the fault.
- 43—Slide
- 44What is the fourth step to locating the epicenter of an earthquake?Repeat Steps 1-3 for another two stations that have recorded data from the earthquake and then triangulate the location using all three distances.
- 45—Slump
- 46—Slump
- 47What is the first step to locating the epicenter of an earthquake?Determine the time difference between the arrival of the first P wave and the arrival of the first S wave.
- 48—Solifluction
- 49—Solifluction
- 50What type of fault occurs at a Continent-Continent convergent boundary?Reverse
- 51What type of fault occurs at an Ocean-Continent convergent boundary?Thrust
- 52Rocks form folds due to what type of deformation?Ductile
- 53What is the force that causes rocks to deform?Stress
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- Earth structures, earthquakes, mass wasting
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