Use this paragraph: Carlon is using two wooden blocks to model the movement of Earth’s plates. He pushes one block forward and the other block backward, rubbing their surfaces together.

Question

Use this paragraph: Carlon is using two wooden blocks to model the movement of Earth’s plates. He pushes one block forward and the other block backward, rubbing their surfaces together.

Which Earth feature is he modeling?

(1 point)
Responses

normal fault
normal fault

strike-slip fault
strike-slip fault

rift valley
rift valley

thrust fault

Answer 1

Carlon is modeling the movement of Earth's plates, which is an example of a fault. None of the options provided specify a particular type of fault, so the answer is general and simply "fault."