Fossils
The Rock Cycle
Landforms
Sudden and Gradual Change
Ms. Sheehan's Questions
100
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 Wagner?
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
An upfold in a rock, and a downfold in a rock.
What is Anticline & Syncline?
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
A process that can take thousands of years and only happens under certain conditions.
What is fossilization?
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 earth was shrinking, therefore they rejected this idea.
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
In A.D. 79 the Volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly and without warning erupted burying which city in Italy ?
What is Pompeii?
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 term we use to describe slow and gradual changes.
What is Incremental?
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