Description
Welcome! This full-page activity is a fill-in-the-blank guide for a unit in middle school earth science about stresses and deformation of Earth’s crust. There are seven paragraph-long sections, each containing a boxed-in word bank. The themes for the sections are as follows.
· Stress
· Deformations
· Faulting
· Faulted mountains and valleys
· Folding
· Fault or fold?
· Plateaus, domes, and the floating crust
Some of the terms covered are anticline, syncline, ductile, rift valley, fault, fold, dome, plateau, mantle, continental crust, oceanic crust, faulting, earthquakes, hanging wall, footwall, compression, tension, forces, deformation, stress, shearing, fracture, normal fault, reverse fault, thrust fault, fault-block mountains, brittle, and fragile.
I assign this worksheet to my seventh-grade earth science students. It takes most of my students longer than a forty-six, minute-long class period to complete. This activity could also be used for basic reinforcement in a high school earth science course as well.
This PDF file will become editable upon conversion to Microsoft Word using an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC program. It includes a complete answer key.
This resource complements the other activities relating to faults and stresses on the earth's crust in my store.
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Movement and Deformation of Earth's Crust Homework Quiz
I appreciate your interest. My store also has dozens of lessons for human anatomy and physiology, physical science, biology, field ecology, chemistry, space science and advanced chemistry.