Definitions
A glacier that forms in mountainous regions at high elevations.
What is a mountain glacier?
The large dinosaurs that dominated the land for over 100 million years became extinct.
What is the Cretaceous Period?
The time when Alberta will experience its next glaciation.
What is 100 000 years?
The climate factor led to the Cretaceous Extinction.
What is drastic cooling?
These gases are known to warm up the planet.
What are Greenhouse Gases?
The state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, and humidity for a particular place at a particular time.
What is weather?
A period where ice sheets covered parts of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Ice Age?
A very large glacier, often more than 1 km in depth, that forms in polar regions.
What is continental ice sheet?
Tectonic plates caused North America to move this direction.
What is northwards?
At the current time, mountain glaciers are doing this.
What is shrinking?
The last glaciation period.
What is the Wisconsin Glaciation?
The time of the great melt that followed the last glaciation.
What is the Holocene Epoch?
The cause of glaciation that involves the Earth's eccentricity, tilt, and precession.
What is the Milankovitch Cycle?
The feathered dinosaurs that flourished in the Cenozoic Era resembled these creatures.
What is birds?
The reason why most European countries are warmer than Canada even though they are just as far north as Canada.
What is the Global Conveyor?
A large river of ice that forms on land and moved under the influence of gravity.
What is a glacier?
About two-thirds of the way of this time period, Alberta is thought to resemble present-day Louisiana.
What is the Tertiary Period?
A teardrop-shaped hill showing the direction the ice sheet advanced.
What is a drumlin?
The landscape adaptation of Alberta in the late Tertiary Period?
What is grasslands?
The soot, dust, and ash of volcanic activity affects this part of Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
When one phenomenon accompanies another, but is not necessarily the determining factor.
What is a correlation?
From 1.7 million years ago to 10 000 years ago, this time period was marked by the formation of glaciers that covered parts of the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Pleistocene Epoch?
Before glaciation, the Rocky Mountains appeared.
What is rounded?
The absence of this from current tropical landscapes indicated that the past climate was too cold for trees to survive.
What is tree pollen?
The variation in energy that leaves the sun affects what part of Earth?
What is the Earth's surface?