🌎 Earth Changes
This can shake the ground and crack Earth’s surface.
What is an earthquake?
These are the remains or traces of living things from long ago.
What are fossils?
This is when rocks break into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This province is known for dinosaur fossils.
What is Alberta?
This is the top layer of soil where plants usually grow best.
What is topsoil?
This large moving sheet of ice can carve valleys.
What is a glacier?
This scientist studies fossils and dinosaurs.
What is a paleontologist?
This is when soil or rock is moved by wind or water.
What is erosion?
This Alberta town is famous for badlands and dinosaurs.
What is Drumheller?
This layer is under topsoil and has less living material.
What is subsoil?
This natural event happens when too much water covers land.
What is a flood?
Fossils help us learn about this: the future or the past?
What is the past?
Plant roots help stop this from happening to soil.
What is erosion?
Farming in Alberta helps grow this.
What is food/crops?
This hard layer is found below soil layers.
What is bedrock?
Wind, water, and ice can all do this to Earth’s surface.
What is change the land?
This Alberta museum is famous for dinosaur fossils.
What is Royal Tyrrell Museum?
This can carry sand and shape rocks over time.
What is wind?
Many fossils in Alberta were found in these rocky hills.
What are the badlands?
Earthworms, roots, and insects are often found in this soil layer.
What is topsoil?
This event can burn plants and leave soil loose.
What is a wildfire?
Fossils are often found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
Water can do this to land by carving valleys.
What is erosion/change the land?
This city is the capital of Alberta.
What is Edmonton?
Scientists study these layers to learn about Earth’s past.
What are soil layers?