Quiz 06_ Normal Faulting
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Geography
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Feb 20, 2024
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Question 10.34 pts
The basin and range topography of Nevada, western Utah and eastern California (and also
southwest Arizona) formed through ____________. Instructions: fill in the blank with the best
answer.
Group of answer choices
a series of large supervolcano explosions that shattered the crust in this area
normal faulting
compression faulting
thrust faulting
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Question 20.34 pts
What is an earthquake that occurs when rocks break along a fault?
Group of answer choices
An earthquake is the shaking of Earth, typically associated with the passage of P-waves and
S-waves.
A fault is the shaking that takes place when an earthquake occurs.
A fault is the shaking that takes place when an earthquake occurs.
A fault is a landslide that occurs from the shaking
Flag question: Question 3
Question 30.34 pts
What stress creates normal faulting?
Group of answer choices
compression
All of the other answers are correct, and thus this is the best answer.
shearing (side-by-side)
extension
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Question 40.34 pts
What stress creates strike-slip faulting?
Group of answer choices
compression
shearing (side-by-side)
extension
All of the other answers are correct, and thus this is the best answer.
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Question 50.34 pts
As southwestern Arizona thinned in response to normal faulting, the process of ________
explains why crustal thinning led to the Earth's interior rising up in the form of metamorphic core
complexes.
Instructions: fill in the blank with the best answer.
Group of answer choices
isostacy
extruve volcanoes
dissolution
intrusive volcanoes
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