Earth Systems Lecture Test #3

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)