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| that shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface |
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| a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume |
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| a change in the volume or shape of Earth's crust |
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| stress that pushes a mass of rock in opposite directions |
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| stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle |
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| stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks |
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| a break in Earth's crust where slabs of rock slip past each other |
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| a type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways with little up-or-down motion |
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| a type of fault where the hanging wall slides downward; caused by tension in the crust |
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| the block of rock that forms the upper half of a fault |
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| the block of rock that forms the lower half of a fault |
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| a type of fault where the hanging wall slides upward |
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| a mountain that forms where a normal fault uplifts a block of rock |
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| bends in rock that form where part of Earth's crust is compressed |
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| an upward fold in rock formed by compression of Earth's crust |
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| a downward fold in rock formed by compression in Earth's crust |
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| a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level |
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