PEDRO D.

DUNCANO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Tiniwisan, Butuan City

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS

ON
SCIENCE 8

SECOND QUARTER
WEEK 1
 Week 1

CONTENT STANDARD : The learners demonstrate understanding of …

The relationship between faults and earthquakes.
Performance Standards: The learners should be able to participate to..
1. Participate in decision making where to build structure based in knowledge of
the location of active faults in the community.
2. Make an emergency plan and prepare an emergency kit for use at home and in
school.
Learning Competency: Using models or illustrations, explain how movements along faults generate
earthquake. ( S8ES-IIa-14)

Active Faults are planes of weakness along which movement takes place. Movement of the two
surfaces of rock against each other causes friction. A step in the fracture plane builds local stress
and slows the movement

Stresses in the outer layer push the sides of the fault together. The friction across
the surface of the fault holds the rock together so they do not slip immediately when
pushed sideways. Eventually enough stress builds up and the rocks slip suddenly releasing
energy in waves that travel through the rock to cause shaking that we feel during earthquake.

Three main types of faults

Faults are subdivided according to the movement of the two blocks. There are three or four
primary fault types:

Normal fault: A dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to
the block below. This type of faulting occurs in response to extension. “Occurs when the “hanging wall”
moves down relative to the “foot wall

Reverse fault: A dip-slip fault in which the upper block, above the fault plane, moves up and
over the lower block. This type of faulting is common in areas of compression, When the dip angle
is shallow, a reverse fault is often described as a thrust fault. “Occurs where the “hanging wall”
moves up or is thrust over the “foot wall””

Strike-slip fault: If you were to stand on the fault and look along its length, this is a type of strike-
slip fault where the left block moves toward you and the right block moves away.
 ACTIVITY

Name: _____________________________ Grade/ Sec: _______

Direction: Answer the questions carefully.

1. When the hanging wall of a fault slides straight down, the fault plane, the fault is called a _____.
a. strike-slip fault b. normal fault c. reverse fault d. thrust fault
2. Movement on a strike-slip fault is primarily _____.
a. Up b. down c. sideways d. backwards
3. A type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways is called:
a. normal fault b.reverse fault c. strike-slip fault
4. How does a reverse fault form?
a. The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.
b. Compression thrusts the fault into reverse
c. Blocks slide past each other.
d. The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
5. The hanging wall slides up and over the footwall is what kind of fault?
a. strike-slip b.normal c. reverse

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AFTERSHOCK EARTHQUAKE ENERGY EPICENTER FAULT

FOCUS FORESHOCK HAZARD HYPOCENTER INTENSITY
LOCATION MAGNITUDE RICHTER SEISMOGRAPH SHAKING
TSUNAMI VIBRATION WAVEFORM