Year 12 · HSC / Earth and Environmental Science
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- What gases did Urey and Miller use to model the early atmosphere in 1953?
- What did the Urey–Miller experiment produce, and why does it matter?
- What is the main limitation of the Urey–Miller experiment as a model of the early Earth?
- What is a black smoker?
- What is chemosynthesis?
- Why are black smoker communities evidence relevant to the origin of life?
- What is panspermia?
- What did the Murchison meteorite (Victoria, 1969) contain that is relevant to the origin of life?
- What is the main limitation of panspermia as an explanation for the origin of life?
- What are cyanobacteria?
- What is a stromatolite?
- Where are the oldest widely accepted stromatolites, and how old are they?
- How does uniformitarianism support stromatolites as evidence of early photosynthesis?
- What was the Great Oxidation Event?
- What is a banded iron formation (BIF)?
- How did BIFs form?
- Why are the Hamersley Basin BIFs economically important?
- What are red beds, and what do they indicate?
- How did the evolution of photosynthesis affect the geosphere?
- What are the Ediacaran fauna?
- How were soft-bodied Ediacaran organisms preserved?
- What was the Cambrian explosion?
- How did the Cambrian fauna change ecosystems compared with the Ediacaran?
- Why did life not colonise land until after the ozone layer formed?
- When did plants first colonise land?
- How did land plants change the geosphere and atmosphere?
- What is the plate tectonic supercycle?
- Name four supercontinents in order from oldest to youngest.
- Why does heat build up under a supercontinent?
- Why does old oceanic lithosphere subduct?
- How does the supercycle affect global climate?
- How does the supercycle affect evolution?
- When did Australia separate from Antarctica, and what climate effect followed?
- What is a mould fossil?
- What is a cast fossil?
- What is a trace fossil? Give two examples.
- What conditions favour fossilisation?
- What makes a good index fossil?
- Why were index fossils essential to building the Geological Time Scale?
- What is uniformitarianism?
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