Carlon is modeling a strike-slip fault. When he pushes one block forward and the other backward while rubbing their surfaces together, it simulates the lateral movement of tectonic plates along a strike-slip fault.
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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thrust fault
thrust fault
rift valley
rift valley
strike-slip fault
strike-slip fault
normal fault
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