Vocabulary
Ancient Utah
Natural Forces
Utah in the Ice Age
RAWR (Dinosaurs)
100
A broken surface or crack.
What is a fracture?
100
Scientists divide time into these geologic periods based on the Earth's crust.
What is an era?
100
Wearing away of Earth's surface by water, glaciers, and wind.
What is erosion?
100
Utah's giant Ice Age super lake.
What is Lake Bonneville?
100
Utah's "extraordinary killing machine" with huge slashing claws; weighed almost a ton.
What is the Utahraptor?
200
Remaining; left over; a trace.
What is a remnant?
200
Utah's sandstone and red rock formations and cliffs were formed by ______ and ____________.
What are heat and pressure?
200
These natural disasters still cause the most damage in Utah today.
What are mudslides and floods?
200
Utah at one point was almost completely covered by water; there are 3 lakes today that are remnants of this water.
What are:
-The Great Salt Lake
-Utah Lake
-Sevier Lake
200
An excavation where stone, artifacts, or dinosaurs are found, called "digs."
What is a quarry?
300
To make more compact by pressing.
What is to compress?
300
Utah has enough ____ to last the entire Earth thousands of years.
What is salt?
300
Utah has about ____ small earthquakes every year.
What is 700?
300
Name 3 of the 5 Ice Age animals we know lived in Utah.
What are:
-Giant Camel
-Giant Sloth
-Saber-Tooth Cat
-Mammoth
-Giant Bison
300
Formed when minerals mix with the organic matter of a living thing that has died.
What is a fossil?
400
The digging site of an archaeological expedition.
What is an excavation?
400
The earliest geologic era we know of.
What is the Precambrian Era?
400
The kind of rock that forms within the Earth's crust and comes to the surface as lava.
What is igneous rock?
400
The geologic era the Ice Age was in.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
400
A natural resource we get from the ground today; a living thing's blood and guts form this over time.
What are fossil fuels?
500
Mineral or organic matter deposited by water, air, or ice.
What is sediment?
500
The name of the geologic era which we live in today.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
500
The name of the fault line we have here in Utah; it's just outside the school along the mountain.
What is the Wasatch Fault?
500
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This kind of Pokeball can catch any Pokemon without fail. It always works.
What is the Master Ball?
There is only ONE of them in each game.
500
Name the other 2 carnivorous dinosaurs we have found in Utah.
What are:
-T Rex
-Allosaurus