Fossils
The process of __ is life, death, burial, perservation, discovery, recovery
What is the process of fossilization?
True or False? Life before the Cambrian Explosion life on earth had bones
False
The point on the earth's surface above the focus
What is a Epicenter?
What is a P Wave
Continents look like puzzle pieces they were once a large piece of land called___
What is Pangea?
What is Compression?
Microscopic marine organisms that both lived and died on the ocean floor, over time sediment bulids.
What is the process of petroleum?
What is 10 times?
This does not move through the interior of the earth only the crust. This type of wave moves the ground and is slowest
What is a Suface Wave?
Alberta has marine fossils and coal and we know the hottest most tropical plants are on the equator
What is evidence fhat Alberta was on the equator?
Preservation of biological materials, tissue and skeletal
A fossil bearing deposit, infamous for preservation of soft tissue
What is the Burgess Shale?
This is type of fault where the blocks are moving towards eachother (compressed), one fault moces above the other
What is a reverse fault?
A P wave will vibrate moving ___ and ____.
This type of boundaries is when the plates are pushing together.
Water deposits minerals into empty space.
What is permineralization?
What is oxygen?
This type of fault is movement moving away from eachother
What is a Normal Fault?
Waves are measured by this tool
___ form by convergent boundaries and sedimentary rock forming by the clash of Continental and Oceanic plates
What is a mountain?
It creates chornological, sequential and existence of evolution.
What is a fossil record?
Alberta was once a tropical sea because of this marine organisms lived and died this results in Alberta having lots of ___
What is petroleum ?
Rocks that bend under stress create elastic potential energy leading to the release of an earthquake
What is the Elastic Rebound Theory
If the epicenter is close to the seismograph the __ wave arrives quickly after the P wave
What is a S wave?
This type of boundaries grinds the plates together side to side.