Minerals
Plate Tectonics & Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Geologic Time & Earth History
Paleontology & Dinosaurs
200

This can be made up of one or more minerals

A rock

200

Movement of the Earth's crust

Earthquake

200

The word for this type of volcano can also refer to a piece of flat metal used for protection

Shield

200

Geologic time is based on this kind of record, which is also a type of music that can be 'hard', 'punk', 'alternative', or even 'classic'

Rock

200

A remain of ancient life

Fossil

400

This mineral is strongly magnetic

Magnetite

400

Two things that could happen during or after an earthquake

Shaking, rockslides, tsunami, power outages, fires, explosions, flooding

400

The name for the edges of the Pacific Ocean where most volcanoes and earthquakes occur

Ring of Fire

400

When talking about geologic time, hundreds and thousands of years are considered this

Recent

400

Fossils of this big-toothed Ice Age animal have been found in Manitoba and are much larger than their living descendants

Giant beavers

600

Name one of the three groups/classes of rocks

Sedimentary

Igneous

Metamorphic

600

This is used to measure the strength of earthquakes

Richter Scale

Moment Magnitude Scale

Mercalli Intensity Scale

600
A volcanic rock

Basalt

Pumice

Rhyolite

600

This unit of time can refer to the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, or Paleozoic and was the name of Taylor Swift's latest concert tour

Eras

600

An animal with a backbone

Vertebrate

800

A mineral that reacts or 'fizzes' with acid

Calcite

Gypsum

800

Name a type of plate boundary

Divergent

Convergent

Transform

800

The volcano that erupted in Washington state, U.S.A. in 1980

Mount St. Helens

800

This grand area is a great place to see millions of years of the rock record

Grand Canyon

800

The name of the 'bird-hipped' dinosaur group that contains the armoured and duck-billed dinosaurs

Ornithischians

1000

This mineral has a strong taste

Halite (salt)

1000

The study of earthquakes

Seismology

1000

One of the ages from the 'Volcanic Ashes of Manitoba' activity

80, 92, or 95 Mya

1000

This principle states that rock layers below are older than rock layers above, and it's super!

Superposition

1000

This dinosaur is considered by many to be the most important dinosaur fossil found and helped explain the connection between dinosaurs and birds, and is also a jacket brand

Archaeopteryx