Fossils
Science stuff
Landforms
Sudden and Gradual Change
Mr. Rubi Questions
100
Traces of once-living things that are preserved in rocks.
What are fossils?
100

Plates moving toward each other.

What is a converging boundary?

100

Person who proposed the theory of continental drift.

Who is Alfred Wegener?

100

This happens when a rock is broken apart by physical forces such as ice, wind and water.

What is mechanical weathering?

100
The 3 types of waves caused by earthquakes. 
What are primary, secondary and surface? 
200
The longest measurement of geologic time.
What is an eon?
200
A term to describe layered rock made of sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
200

An up-fold in a rock, and a down-fold in a rock.

What is Anticline & Syncline?

200
The thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
200

An example of this is when plants force their roots into spaces and crack rocks and soil in order to grow.

What is biological weathering?

300
A fossil that creates a black outline of the fossil
What is carbon film fossil?
300
When you add pressure to Igneous rock this form of rock is created.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
300

What happens when an oceanic crust converges with continental crust.

What is a subduction zone?

300
A downward slow moving mass of ice and snow that carves out valleys. 
What is a glacier?
300
Shiny rocks have this quality...
What is it's lustre?
400

Provides us with indirect evidence of life in the past, such as the footprints, tracks, and burrows

What is a trace fossil?

400
This type of rock is formed from lava.
What is igneous rock?
400
The three basic types of mountains.  
What is folding, faulting and volcanic?
400
Forces such as wind and rain that break rocks down TRANSPORTS them to other locations.
What is erosion?
400
In A.D. 79 the Volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly and without warning erupted burying which city in Italy ?
What is Pompeii?
500

The museum in Drumheller, Alberta that specializes in dinosaur fossils.

What is the Royal Tyrell Museum?
500
When a mineral splits easily into two smooth surfaces.
What is cleavage?
500

Layers of sediment that have formed over millions of years

What is strata?

500
Detects the waves in the earth caused by earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
500
The scientific term we use to describe SLOW and gradual changes to the Earth's surface (like erosion).
What are Incremental changes?
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