Created by Olivia Gniadek
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Where do earthquakes occur
What is the hypocentre
What is an epicentre
What is a reverse fault
What is a normal fault
What is a thrust fault
What is a strike-slip fault
What are foreshocks
What are aftershocks
What are the two types of earthquake scales
What is a Mercalli scale
What are the main plate boundary types at which earthquakes occur
Where do 5% of earthquakes occur
What types of damage can earthquakes cause
How can we predict earthquakes
How does a tsunami occur
How does a tsunami propogate from its source
What is a volcano?
What is the architecture of a volcano
what are the products of a volcano
What is lava?
How does it vary in physical and chemical properties
What is pyoclastic
what are the pyroclastic products
what are the volcanic gases
What are the different shapes and sizes of volcanoes
Sketch the shape of the different volcanoes
How do effusive eruptions occur and what rock type do they form from
How do explosive eruptions occur and what rock type do they form from
What is a phreatomagnetic eruption
what are the controls on eruptive style
second control on eruptive style
third control on eruptive style
What is an Oceanic hot spot?
What is a continental hot spot
what is lava
what is tephra
what are pyroclastics
what is a blast
what are landslides
what are lahars
what is an earthquake
what are tsunamis
what are gas emissions
what is an angle of repose
what is cohesion
what are the three types of slope profiles
what is a creep
what is a flow
what is a slide
what is a heave
what is a fall
what is a subsidence
How can mass movement be predicted
How do rock materials influence weathering
how do joints and fractures influence weathering
What are primary and secondary minerals
what is mineral stability for olivine and quartz
what is the process of weathering for granite
what is the process of weathering for basalt
what is the process of weathering for sandstone
what is the process of weathering for limestone
What is a regolith
what is a saprolite
what is a weathering front
What are duricrusts
What is the main mineral constituent for ferricrete
What is the main mineral constituent for silcrete
What is the main mineral constituent for calcrete
What is the main mineral constituent for bauxite
What is the main mineral constituent for gypcrete
What is the main mineral constituent for halite
What is a desert
what are the five types of deserts
What are sand dunes
How do sand dunes form
What are the three types of sand dunes
What is the principal dust migration path across south/north Australia
What are the main coastal interaction effects with waves and tides
What is swash
What is backwash
Swash and Backwash
What is refraction
What is longshore drift
What is the main periodicity of tides and how do they form
What is a neap tide
What is a spring tide
What is a beach face and how does it form
What is a berm and how is it formed
what is a dune profile and how does it form
What are the seasonal patterns of beach development
What is Gondwana
What is Pangaea
What is the approximate ages of breakup of Gondwana
What are paleo-surfaces and how long have they been preserved
How do we recognise paleo-surfaces in Australia
What are the major phases of rifting and what are the ages of these rifts
How are rift sequences seen in the geological record of Australia
What are the different plate boundaries that surround the Indian-Australian Plate
How is stress transmitted across the India-Australian Plate
How is Australia tilting and what are the landscape features that show this
Why are there no marine sediments in the Eyre Basin despite it being currently below sea level
What is the last major glacial event in the Permian 270 Ma
What are the other indicators of glacial events since then
Why is there little evidence of ice from the Cretaceous period, despite Australia being at high altitudes
What is the K-T boundary and mass extinction
Why was the Eocene a thermal maximum
How do rivers and lakes react to glacial and inter-glacial events
What is the difference between local (tectonic) and global (eustatic) sea level change
What is a transgression
What is a regression
Why was there a major sea level maxima in the Cretaceous and the Tertiary
How does the Eucla Basin geomorphology show significant regressions over the last 45 Ma
Why are paleo-shorelines across South Australia generally higher than the sea-level fall particularly in eastern Australia
How can paleo-shorelines of the coorong be shown to have regressed (moved sea wards)