Question

What causes faulting?
a)Tectonic movements
b) Erosion
c) Weathering
d) Volcanic

Answer 1

It is caused due to tectonic movements of the plates of earth's crust. In faulting cracks and faults are created along the earth’s surface.The fault causes one block of the Earth to rift away from the other or causes the Earth’s block to move up or down.Here convergence forms a mountain.