The special symbol to indicate a strike on a geologic map is a ____.
A)short line oriented at 90 degrees from the strike direction
B)short line oriented at 45 degrees from the strike direction
C)short line parallel to the strike direction
D)long line oriented in the appropriate compass direction
E)long line oriented toward north
Question 2Who was the first person to suggest that all of the continents had originally been joined together as the supercontinent Pangaea?
A)Snider-Pelligrini, in 1858
B)Frank Taylor, in 1910
C)Alfred Wegener, in 1912
D)Alexander du Toit, in 1937
E)Harry Hess, in 1962
Question 3The bending of waves toward shore as they approach from an oblique angle is called wave ____________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Question 4In a reverse fault, the ____.
A)hanging wall goes up relative to the footwall
B)hanging wall goes down relative to the footwall
C)hanging wall and footwall remain in the same position vertically
D)two sides of the fault slide past each other horizontally
E)two sides of the fault move away from each other
Question 5Gondwana consisted of which current continents?
A)South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and India
B)Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia
C)South America, Africa, India, and Australia
D)South Africa, India, Africa, and Australia
E)South America, Central America, and India
Question 6The zone that extends to just beyond where the waves break is called the ____________________ zone.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Question 7Strain is ____.
A)a type of fault
B)deformation caused by stress
C)always compressional
D)never compressional
E)also called bendability
Question 8Why did Alexander du Toit feel it was necessary to propose a northern landmass he named Laurasia?
A)Pangaea did not account for all known landmasses.
B)The landmass helped resolve climatological inconsistencies.
C)Paleomagnetic studies of the seafloor proved its existence.
D)A large mass of Gondwana had broken off and drifted northward.
E)Recent ocean voyages discovered remnants of its existence.