science
Grade-4-
Easy

Question

The given image shows Sierra Nevada mountains. It is formed by___________.

  1. Normal fault
  2. Reverse fault
  3. Strike-slip fault
  4. All of these

hintHint:

Sierra Nevada mountains is formed by normal faulting.

The correct answer is: Normal fault


    • Fault is the fracture between two techtonic plates.
    • There are different types of faulting, one such is normal faulting.
    • Normal faulting is when one techtonic plate moves downward and slide along the other fracture of the fault line.

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