Traces of once-living things that are preserved in rocks.
What are fossils
100
Plates moving toward each other.
What is converging boundaries?
100
Proposed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred WEGENER?
100
This happens when a rock is broken apart by physical forces such as wind and water.
What is mechanical weathering?
100
The 2 events that cause sudden changes to Earth's surface.
What are Earthquakes and Volcanoes?
200
Studies early life forms of animals and plants also known as fossils.
What is a Paleontologist?
200
A term to describe layered rock.
What is sedimentary?
200
There is a fault line that runs North and South in the Atlantic Ocean. The tectonic plates here diverge. This line is called...
Mid Atlantic Ridge
200
The thinest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
200
An example of this is when plants force their roots into spaces with soil in order to grow.
What is biological weathering?
300
Geologists have organized Earth's history into geologic time intervals called....
Eras
300
When you add pressure to Igneous rock this form of rock is created.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
300
In the early 1900s scientists believed the continents were once together forming a super continent called...PANGAEA. This was because of a theory called....
What is continental drift?
300
A moving mass of ice and snow
What is a glacier?
300
The way the surface of a mineral reflects light.
What is it's lustre?
400
An "imprint" that was left by organic matter and fossilized over millions of years.
What is a trace fossil?
400
This type of rock is formed from lava.
What is igneous rock?
400
Compression forces that cause sedimentary rocks to bend and break ... hint, the answers start with the same letter
What is faulting and folding ?
400
Forces such as wind and rain that break rocks down transport them to other locations.
What is EROSION?
400
Name 4 of the five Types of Minerals.
Calcite, Quartz, Mica, Hornblende, Feldspar
500
The Canadian museum that houses 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 process when Oceanic Crust converges with Continental Crust where the oceanic crust goes under the Continental crust.