Section1 - Earth's Surface
List the 4 layers of the earth?
Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust.
The most common rock that humans eat almost every day is...
Salt
How many continents are there in the world today?
7
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia.
The name of the museum just outside of Grande Prairie (in Wembly) is named...
The Philip J Currie Museum
What layer of the earth do we live on?
The crust
What is the name of the scale used to measure the intensity of an earthquake?
The Richter Scale
The building blocks of rock are pure, naturally occurring solid materials called...
Minerals
What is the name of the "super-continent" that existed before continental drift occurred?
Panagea
What is a paleontologist?
A scientist who studies early life forms by interpreting animal and plant fossils.
What is easier for scientists to predict, a volcano coming or an earthquake coming?
Volcano
What are the 3 types of weathering?
1. Mechanical weathering
2. Chemical weathering
3. Biological weathering
List 1 common property used to identify rocks?
Colour, streak, lustre, cleavage, fracture, hardness.
The earth's crust is divided into 7 major sections and floats on the earth's mantle. The name of these floating sections are called...
Plate tectonics
What is the name of a famous fossil/dinosaur found in Alberta?
ALBERTOSAURUS,
ALBERTAVENATOR,
CHASMOSAURUS,
EDMONTOSAURUS,
GORGOSAURUS,
PACHYRHINOSAURUS,
STEGOCERAS
What rock family/type does sandstone belong to?
Sedimentary
What is the difference between sudden changes and incremental changes?
Sudden changes happen fast, like a volcano. Incremental changes happy very slow, like erosion.
List the 3 rock types/families.
1. Metamorphic
2. Sedimentary
3. Igneous
Large bends in the rock beds are called...
Folds
Which rock type are fossils most commonly found in?
Sedimentary Rocks
Rust developing on a truck is an example of what type of weathering?
Chemical weathering
The first place that rocks break below the surface in an earthquake is called the FOCUS. The point on the surface directly above the focus is called the...
Epicentre
What type of rock family does GRANITE belong to?
Igneous
The man who developed the theory of continental drift is...
Alfred Wegener
All that science knows about the ancient past, it has learned from rock and fossil records. Geologists have used this knowledge to organize Earth’s history into geologic time intervals. These time periods are called ...
Era's
A riverbank that is slowly increasing in size due to its outer banks breaking down is an example of...
Erosion