1. What do we call a fault in which the hanging wall moves up along the dip with respect to the footwall (as pictured)?
D. A reverse 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)?
D. An anticline
3. True or False: A fault is always the result of tensional stress.
B. False
4. What do we call a fault in which the movement is horizontal along the strike?
A. A strike-slip fault
5. What produces a reverse fault?
C. Compressional stress
6. True or False: Synclines will always form valleys in the landscape.
B. False
7. What do we call a downdropped block of the crust, bounded by normal faults on each side?
C. A graben
8. The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a _____ fault in a _____ plate boundary.
D. a strike-slip fault in a transform plate boundary
9. The Sierra Nevada Mountains in California are primarily what kind of mountains?
C. Fault-block
10. Which of the following statements is true of the epicenter of an earthquake?
B. The epicenter is the point on the Earth’s surface just above the location where movement on the fault began
