Plate tectonics, the rock cycle, geological time, soils and the hazards that arise from an active planet.
These are the statements the Earth and Environmental Science syllabus makes about Solid Earth and Geological Processes. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Plate boundaries, the evidence that supports tectonics, and the landforms and hazards each boundary type produces.
Rock types and their formation, and the geological conditions that concentrate a mineral into an economic deposit.
Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis: their causes, their measurement, and why hazard risk depends on exposure as much as magnitude.
Australia's ancient cratons, its aridity, and the soils and biota that follow from long isolation.
Palaeomagnetism, seafloor spreading, fossil and rock matching, and how independent lines of evidence converge.
Relative and absolute dating, superposition and index fossils, and the scale of geological time.
Physical, chemical and biological weathering, and the soil profiles that result from climate and parent material.
Magmatic, hydrothermal and sedimentary concentration processes, and what makes a deposit worth extracting.
How P and S wave behaviour reveals layering, and how a seismograph record locates an epicentre.
HSC Earth and Environmental Science - Examination Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Solid Earth and Geological Processes are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Earth and Environmental Science uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Solid Earth and Geological Processes opens the Earth and Environmental Science course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Earth and Environmental Science dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.