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7th Grade Inside Earth Chapter 2 Sec 1 & 3

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stress   a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume  
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tension   stress force pulls on the crust stretching rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle  
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compression   stress force squeezes rock until it folds or breaks  
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shearing   stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions  
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normal faults   fault is at an angle  
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hanging wall   block of rock that lies above the fault  
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footwall   block of rock that lies below the fault  
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reverse fault   fault where the blocks move in the opposite direction  
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strike-slip fault   a fault where the rocks on either side of the fault slip past each other sideways  
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anticline   a fold in rock that bends upward into an arch  
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syncline   a fold in rock that bends downward to form a valley  
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seismogram   the record of an earthquake's seismic waves produced by a seismograph  
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friction   the force that opposes the motion of one surface as it moves across another surface  
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