Natural Events
What natural event is when a massive amount of snow falls down a mountain at a rapid speed?
What is an avalanche
What is four
How do First Nations, Métis, or Inuit people share information about changes to the Earth's surface?
A person who studies dinosaurs and fossils is called a ______.
What is a Palaeontologist
True or False: Burrowing animals can change the Earth's soil
What is true
What natural event is caused by dry conditions, lightning, and volcanic eruptions. This natural event greatly affect quality of life for humans and animals as it can burn vegetation and destroy homes and habitats.
What is a wildfire
What layer is in the center of the Earth?
What is the inner core
How do humans change the earth's surface?
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What is a fossil?
Fossils can be bones or imprints of animals or plants that lived on the land long ago.
How many layers of soil is there?
What is 5.
What natural event can pick up things (even heavy things like cars and tractors) from the ground and move them around. It can change and destroy some of the Earth’s surface.
What is a tornado
What is layer called in which WE live on?
What is the crust.
How does the Earth's surface change over time through the actions of wind, water, and ice?
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What is, it can be shaped and broken down into different forms
The fossil of Nodosaurus, a dinosaur with tough, spiky armor, was
discovered in which location in Alberta?
a) Edmonton
b) Calgary
c) The Badlands
d) The Fort McMurray area
What is The Fort McMurray area
True or False: Plant roots grow and expand and cause the soil to change.
What is true
What natural event is when large, fast moving ocean waves are caused by earthquakes or volcantic eruptions under the sea. These waves can reach great heights and will surge onto land. They can destroy many things in its path, including trees, buildings, and beaches.
What is a tsunami
What layer of Earth is below the crust?
What is the mantle
How do animals change the earth's surface?
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One way we know dinosaurs existed millions of years ago is by _________.
What is studying the earth’s surface and layers
Name the FIVE layers of soil
What is humus, top soil (dirt), sub-soil (sand, silt and clay), gravel, and bedrock.
What natural event happened in Alberta and how did it change the land?
What Earth layer is made up of HOT liquid iron and nickel?
What is the outer core.
What is an example of erosion?
a) An animal digging a burrow
b) A flowing river moving rocks from one place to another
c) Tree roots taking up space in the soil
d) A wildfire burning down a forest
What is a flowing river moving rocks from one place to another
Which of the following dinosaur fossils is NOT typically found in Alberta?
a) Tyrannosaurus rex
b) Stegosaurus
c) Edmontosaurus
d) Albertosaurus
What is the Stegosaurus
Label the layers of soil diagram.
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