Long-Term Changes
Short-Term Changes
Human and Animal Impact
Fossils and Dinosaurs
Soil and Habitats
100

What process involves mountains wearing down over time?

What is erosion?

100

What natural event involves molten rock erupting from the Earth?

What is a volcanic eruption?

100

What human activity involves constructing buildings and infrastructure?

What is building towns and cities?

100

What type of scientist studies fossilized dinosaur bones?

What is a paleontologist?

100

What are the components of soil?

What are living plants and animals, decaying plants and animals, rock particles, air, and water?

200

What natural feature changes course over long periods?

What is a river?

200

What sudden movement of the Earth's crust can cause significant surface changes?

What is an earthquake?

200

What agricultural practice can change the Earth's surface?

What is growing crops and farming?

200

Where in Alberta can you find a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for dinosaur fossils?

What is Dinosaur Provincial Park?

200

What term describes environments where plants or animals establish a home?

What are habitats?

300

What happens to lakes and seas over long periods?

What is drying out and refilling?

300

What natural disaster involves large amounts of water covering land?

What is a flood?

300

What insect infestation can significantly alter forest landscapes?

What is the mountain pine beetle?

300

Name one dinosaur that lived in Alberta.

What is Albertosaurus (or Edmontosaurus, Nodosaurus, Tyrannosaurus)?

300

How can plants and animals change soil?

What are growing plants and crops, and worms tunneling and eating matter?

400

What are the remnants of very thick ice sheets that once covered all of Canada?

What are glaciers?

400

What event can cause large waves to crash onto shorelines?

What is a tsunami?

400

What human activity involves extracting natural resources from the Earth?

What is mining?

400

Which museum in Drumheller, Alberta, displays fossilized dinosaur bones?

What is the Royal Tyrrell Museum?

400

What local Alberta river is fed by glacier runoff?

What is the Bow River (or any other glacier-fed river in Alberta)?

500

What natural events have shaped Alberta’s badlands and the Grand Canyon?

What are interactions with wind and water?

500

hat process involves the rapid movement of a large amount of earth material down a slope?

What is a landslide?

500

What is the term for responsible management and care of the environment?

What is stewardship?

500

What evidence do paleontologists use to know that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago?

What are fossilized dinosaur bones?

500

How do layers of Earth's surface hold information about the past?

What are fossilized remains and sediment layers?

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