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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?

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Responses

rift valley
rift valley

normal fault
normal fault

strike-slip fault
strike-slip fault

thrust fault

Answer 1

Carlon is modeling a "strike-slip fault" with his wooden blocks. In a strike-slip fault, two blocks of the Earth's crust slide past each other horizontally, similar to the movement Carlon is simulating by pushing one block forward and the other backward, with their surfaces rubbing together. This type of fault is common at transform plate boundaries, where the motion of the Earth's plates is primarily horizontal.