The Anthropocene
Our current epoch on the geologic time scale
What is the holocene?
The 4 layers of the earth
Inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
One of the oldest landforms in Canada
what is the Canadian shield?
Rock type formed by hot magma cooling
What is igneous rock?
Lines running from the North to South pole
What is longitude?
The longest measure of time on the geologic time scale
What is an eon?
Alfred Wegener's theory
What is continental drift?
What is the Canadian Shield, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, and/or Arctic and Hudson Lowlands
Rock type formed by environmental conditions leading to eroded rocks, sand and minerals compacting
What is sedimentary rock?
There are 7 of these "zones" in Canada
What are time zones?
Major global event after which our current epoch begins
What is the ice age?
The most famous "supercontinent" in geologic history
What is Pangea?
The furthest North landform region of Canada
Rock type formed when the other 2 types change due to conditions underground (heat, pressure, water exposure, strain ext...)
What is Metamorphic rock?
The animal who was able to bring up a piece of earth from beneath the water in the Haudenosaunee creation story
The muskrat
Ways in which geologic time is determined
What are rock layers/strata/fossils/organisms
When two tectonic plates slide alongside one another (often creates fault lines)
What is a transform boundary?
BC is part of this landform region
What is the Cordillera?
Rock type in which most rare minerals are found
What is metamorphic rock?
The beaded treaty making item used by Indigenous communities since precolonial times
What is a wampum belt?
A PERIOD of geologic time in which dinosaurs could be found
What is the cretaceous, jurassic or triassic period
When one plate meets and starts to sink beneath another
What is a convergent boundary/subduction?
Most of the water bodies in the Hudson's Bay Lowlands were formed by this phenomenon
What is glaciation melting?
Rock type that is typically the "softest"
What is sedimentary rock?