Geologic Time & Earth Layers
This is the outermost and thinnest layer of the Earth where we live.
What is the crust?
The scientist who proposed the Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
______________: Day-to-day atmospheric conditions such as temperature and precipitation.
What is weather?
When a natural hazard causes major damage or loss of life it becomes this.
What is a natural disaster?
What is climate change?
This layer lies beneath the crust and contains extremely hot molten rock.
What is the mantle?
This type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
The average weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The intense shaking of Earth’s surface caused by movement of tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
What happens to sea levels when polar ice sheets melt?
Sea levels rise.
Put these in the correct order: deposition, weathering, erosion
What is weathering → erosion → deposition?
This process occurs when one tectonic plate slides beneath another.
What is subduction?
List three factors that affect climate.
latitude, ocean currents, winds/air masses, elevation, relief, near water
These rotating columns of high-velocity wind commonly occur in Southwestern Ontario.
What are tornadoes?
This type of person must leave their home due to climate-related environmental changes.
What is a climate change refugee?
Name the process where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The two main types of glaciers.
What are alpine glaciers and continental glaciers?
The closer a location is to the equator, the temperature becomes this.
What is warmer?
The most costly natural disaster in Canada in terms of property damage.
What are floods?
Climate change may lengthen the growing season in some agricultural areas because temperatures become this.
what is warmer?
Each major geologic time period often ended with this type of event affecting life on Earth.
What is a major extinction?
These egg-shaped hills formed by glacial deposition are common in Southern Ontario.
What are drumlins?
What is the name for winds that blow from west to east across Canada?
What are the Westerlies?
Areas of Western Canada are already experiencing frequent and severe ....
What is a drought?
The uneven distribution of precipitation caused by climate change can lead to this natural hazard in dry regions.
What is drought?