Stress tending to pull objects apart is ________ stress.

A. compressive
B. shearing
C. elastic
D. tensile


Answer: D

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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In most cases, the distance between the seismically slow upwelling zone and the closest downwelling zone is

A) much greater than the thickness of the convecting mass. B) much less than the thickness of the convecting mass. C) about the same as the thickness of the convecting mass. D) about the same as the thickness of the mantle.

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A. rehabilitation B. secondary succession C. replacement D. creating artificial ecosystems E. restoration

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The Alaskan earthquake of 1964 was extraordinarily violent and has been assigned a moment magnitude of ________

A) 2.3 B) 5.7 C) 9.2 D) 21.6 E) 47.5

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