Movers and Shakers
The layer of the Earth that makes up most of Earth's mass and is made up of molten rock
The Mantle
The two key ingredients to make a metamorphic rock are
heat and pressure
The Rocky Mountains formed by what type of plate boundary?
Convergent plate boundary
Scientists that study fossils are called
Paleontologists
A solid made by many minerals is called a
Rock
A force that causes the inner core of the Earth to remain solid
Pressure
The crust is made up of
rocks and minerals
The region of the Earth that has the highest number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions each year
The Ring of Fire
The last period of the Dinosaurs
Cretaceous period
The most common type of rock in Alberta
Sedimentary
A landscape feature that forms when an oceanic plate slides underneath another oceanic plate or continental plate. Often results in a trench or mountains.
Subduction Zone
When magma hardens and crystalized beneath the Earth's surface
Intrusive igneous rocks
Bends in the rock, often see these in mountains
Folds
Why is it important that dead organisms are buried quickly in order to make fossils?
So decomposers and scavengers do not eat away the body
This property of minerals describes how light is reflected off of the mineral's surface
Lustre
New land is often created through what type of boundary
Divergent boundaries
When sediment is compacted and cemented it forms what class of rock?
Sedimentary
What theory do we use to explain how the Earth's crust moves?
Plate Tectonics
What are different types of fossils?
Trace, cast, and petrified wood
A solid structure created by molecules that fit together in repeating systems
Crystals
The hoodoos were created by what incremental force?
Mechanical Weathering
Explains the various processes that rocks undergo to change state
The Rock Cycle
1. Fossils
2. Glaciers
3. Landscape features/formations
4. Coal deposits
What makes Burgess Shale noteworthy?
Soft tissues were preserved
Which mineral is the hardest on Mohs hardness scale?
Diamond