Oldest habitats in the world
What are bogs?
How Bogs are classified.
What is Rare and Endangered?
The definition of an archive.
What is a collection of documents and records?
What bogs store in them to reduce global warming and minimize climate change.
Where Mrs. Issel grew up.
What is Delta?
5,000 years old
How old is Burns Bog?
Some characteristics of the bog.
What is acidic, wet and nutrient poor?
These do not rot away in a bog.
What are plant and animal matter and human-made items?
The atmosphere, trapped gases and the sun work together to produce...
What is the greenhouse effect?
The carnivorous plant that grows in the Burns Bog?
What is the sundew?
Estimated to be 10 000 years old
What is the Bog of Allen?
The location of the Burns Bog.
What is Delta, British Columbia?
Scientists use this to determine approximately how old a previously living item is.
What is radiocarbon dating?
The increase in the average surface temperature of the earth.
What is global warming?
This item was almost lost in the muck during one of Mrs. Issel's field trips to the bog.
What is a boot?
Is estimated to be 50 000 years old.
What is the Nakaikemi Bog?
2 Important resting habitats for migrating Birds.
What are Burns Bog and Boundary Bay?
Name 5 things that have been preserved in bogs.
What are jewelry, musical instruments, tools, bones, leather boots, and charcoal.
The plant matter in Burns Bog that does not fully decompose and holds carbon.
What is peat?
These look like solid ground in Burns Bog but aren't.
What is a bog hole?
Some bogs formed after this event.
What is the Ice Age?
One of the 4 major travel routes for birds in North America.
What is the Pacific Flyway?
Anthropologists can study the materials to learn....
What is the history of the time that these items were used.
If bogs are left undisturbed.
What is store carbon for thousands of years?
This is preserved in peat and can help scientists discover different types of plants since the last Ice Age.
What is pollen?