Long-Term Changes
What process involves mountains wearing down over time?
What is erosion?
What natural event involves molten rock erupting from the Earth?
What is a volcanic eruption?
What human activity involves constructing buildings and infrastructure?
What is building towns and cities?
What type of scientist studies fossilized dinosaur bones?
What is a paleontologist?
What are the components of soil?
What are living plants and animals, decaying plants and animals, rock particles, air, and water?
What natural feature changes course over long periods?
What is a river?
What sudden movement of the Earth's crust can cause significant surface changes?
What is an earthquake?
What agricultural practice can change the Earth's surface?
What is growing crops and farming?
Where in Alberta can you find a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for dinosaur fossils?
What is Dinosaur Provincial Park?
What term describes environments where plants or animals establish a home?
What are habitats?
What happens to lakes and seas over long periods?
What is drying out and refilling?
What natural disaster involves large amounts of water covering land?
What is a flood?
What insect infestation can significantly alter forest landscapes?
What is the mountain pine beetle?
Name one dinosaur that lived in Alberta.
What is Albertosaurus (or Edmontosaurus, Nodosaurus, Tyrannosaurus)?
How can plants and animals change soil?
What are growing plants and crops, and worms tunneling and eating matter?
What are the remnants of very thick ice sheets that once covered all of Canada?
What are glaciers?
What event can cause large waves to crash onto shorelines?
What is a tsunami?
What human activity involves extracting natural resources from the Earth?
What is mining?
Which museum in Drumheller, Alberta, displays fossilized dinosaur bones?
What is the Royal Tyrrell Museum?
What local Alberta river is fed by glacier runoff?
What is the Bow River (or any other glacier-fed river in Alberta)?
What natural events have shaped Alberta’s badlands and the Grand Canyon?
What are interactions with wind and water?
hat process involves the rapid movement of a large amount of earth material down a slope?
What is a landslide?
What is the term for responsible management and care of the environment?
What is stewardship?
What evidence do paleontologists use to know that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago?
What are fossilized dinosaur bones?
How do layers of Earth's surface hold information about the past?
What are fossilized remains and sediment layers?