What happens when stress builds at faults? Energy is absorbed. Rock can bend and break. Plates form on the lithosphere. Earthquakes develop at Earth’s surface.

Tides are caused by a differences in the gravitational force of the sun at different points on earth. differences in the gravitational force of the moon at different points on earth differences in earth’s gravitational field strength at different points on earth’s surfac fluctuations in the gravitational attraction between earth and the moon.