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After these events, plants and animals were covered over and preserved.
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
Areas of land where little rain comes down and not much vegetation grows. There is rock and dry soil everywhere.
What are the badlands?
This man found a fossil in Alberta in 1884 while looking for coal.
Who is Joseph Tyrrell?
In 1955, this place was created to turn the Red Deer Valley into a protected area to protect fossils. It has the world's richest collection of fossils from 75 million years ago. Fossils fo dinosaurs, crocodiles, fish, insects, and plants have been found there.
What is Dinosaur Provincial Park?
Oil, gas, and coal are called fossil fuels because they come from the remains of this.
What is ancient plants and animals?
Thick sheets of ice and snow that move slowly across the land.
What are glaciers?
Because much of the rock in the badlands is made of this, erosion takes place much more quickly when compared to harder rocks.
What is sandstone?
What is Albertosaurus?
Until this year, anyone could collect fossils in Alberta.
What is 1978?
Fossil fuels can be used for this.
What is heat and energy?
Over millions of years, water and Alberta's strong winds carried away the soil and rock.
What is erosion?
When the dinosaurs lived in Alberta 230 million to 65 million years ago, the area was a series of river flood plains and deltas that extended into this.
What is a warm, shallow, sea?
The First Nations people who first discovered animal fossils in the area believed them to be ancestors of this animal.
What is the bison?
Only this type of scientist is allowed to dig for fossils in some areas. They study fossils to learn about very old forms of life.
What are paleontologists?
Heat and pressure of this is what caused remains of plants and animals to turn into fossil fuels?
After many layers of sediment build up on top of the bones and teeth, this is what is put onto the layers below, squashing them and turning them into sedimentary rock.
What is weight and pressure?
This rugged valley is made up of unusual shapes which have been formed by the actions of wind and water. These include buttes and deep, twisted and winding canyons, coulees, gullies and hoodoos. When you look at the valley sides, you can see layers of sandstone or mudstone, coal and shale.
What is the Red Deer River valley?
Many fossils found in Alberta are this kind of animal because Alberta used to be covered in water.
What is a sea creature?
At this museum, Fossils can remain in the province, paleontologists in Alberta now have a place to study their finds, and people living in the province can see the fossils on display.
What is the Royal Tyrrell Museum?
This is an important industry in Alberta that provides many jobs.
What is oil and gas?
While the bones are turning into sedimentary rocks, this seeps into the bones and teeth, turning them to stone as it leaves behind minerals.
What is water?
The name badlands was given to the area by these French Canadian explorers because the area looked so bare and was too dry and unsuitable for farming.
Who are Francois and Louis Joesph de la Verendrye?
This kind of mineral is a kind of fossilized snail and it is used to create jewelry.
What is ammonite?
This is what you should do if you find a fossil in a protected area in Alberta?
What is leave it where it is and report it to the Royal Tyrrell Museum?