The document discusses various types of forces that cause stress and deformation in Earth's crust, including compression, tension, shearing, fracturing, and faulting. It describes how different types of faults like normal faults, reverse faults, thrust faults, and strike-slip faults lead to movement of crustal blocks and formation of landforms. It also explains how folding of rock layers contributes to mountain building and discusses how plate tectonics shapes Earth's surface over millions of years.