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Vocabulary
Earthquake: the shaking and trembling that results from the movement beneath Earth's surface Stress: a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume Shearing: stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions Tension:a force that pulls a on the crust, stretching rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle Compression:a force that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks Deformation: any changes in the volume or shape in Earth's crust Hanging Wall: the block of rock that forms the upper half of the fault Footwall:the block of rock that forms the lower half of the fault Strike-slip fault:the rocks on either side of the fault slip past each other side ways with little up or down motion Normal fault:the fault is at an angle, so one block of the rock is above, the other is below Reverse fault:when the rocks move in opposite directions Fault-block mountain:it is when normal faults uplift asingle block of rock Folds:a bend in rock that forms when compression shortens and thickens part of Earth's crust Anticline: a fold in rock that bends upward into an arch Sycline: a fold in a rock that bends downward Plateau:A large area of falt land elevated above sea leval

Outline

 * Stress in the crust
 * Types of stress
 * Kinds of faults
 * strike-slip fault
 * normal fault
 * reverse fault
 * Friction along faults
 * Mountain building
 * mountains built by faulting
 * mountains formed by folding
 * anticlines and syclines
 * plateaus


 * diagrams**