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Which two Victorian sedimentary basins provide most of Victoria’s oil to fuel our cars and gas for our homes?
- Murray-Darling & Sorell Basins
- Bass & Duntroon Basins
- Gippsland & Otway Basins
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Sedimentary basins along Australia’s southern margin were formed by sea floor spreading between Australia and which continental plate?
- the African plate
- the Antarctic plate
- the Indian plate
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In Victoria, oil and gas are trapped in sandstone reservoirs that were deposited by ancient ______?
- river sands
- beach sands
- all of the above
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Oil and gas are sourced from ______?
- marine algae/seaweed
- terrestrial swamp plants
- all of the above
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Oil and Gas are less dense than water and are trapped in the top of underground ______?
- Folded porous reservoir rocks
- Cave and fracture systems
- Granite basement rocks
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Geologists monitor the earth’s plate movements to assist in the prediction of ______?
- bushfires
- volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunami
- cosmic events
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Name an ancient volcanic area in Victoria?
- Mt Schank
- Kilauea
- Mt Napier
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The ‘Ring of Fire’ is a zone of ______?
- Earthquakes and volcanoes
- Plate boundaries
- All of the above
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The ‘Ring of Fire’ comes closest to which margin of Australia?
- North
- East
- West
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To make images of underground geologic structures and rock types, geophysicists transmit what type of waves into the top 5-10 km of the crust?
- Infra-red waves
- Sound waves
- X-Rays
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Sudden movement along a fault causes ______?
- an earthquake
- a volcano
- extinctions
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The Alpine Fault in New Zealand is ______?
- a zone of active mountain-building along a tectonic plate boundary
- a zone of active earthquakes
- all of the above
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Careers in Earth Sciences are for students interested in ______?
- Biology and/or Geography
- Chemistry and/or Physics
- Any of the above and Mathematics as well
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Careers in Earth Sciences can involve ______?
- geology (environmental, field, minerals, petroleum, fossils)
- history of the solar system (earth history, climate change, public health)
- all of the above
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