Geologic History
Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic.
What are the 4 geologic eras?
Core, Mantle, Crust.
What are the layers of the earth?
Magma
What is the first stage of the rock cycle?
The most Northern Landform
What is the Canadian Arctic?
A daily measure of different characteristics.
What is weather?
Age of the dinosaurs
What is a biological event from the Mesozoic period?
Two plates colliding.
What are convergent boundaries?
Igneous
What is the first formed rock?
The largest landform.
What is the Canadian Shield?
A measurement of averages, often outlining and tracking weather over long periods of time.
What is climate?
The German Scientist that theorized continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Two plates moving from one another.
What are divergent boundaries?
Sediment
What are the little particles that fall off an igneous rock?
The landform we live in.
What are the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands?
Must get all 6 correct!!! LOWERN stands for
Latitude, Ocean Currents, Wind, Elevation, Relief, Near Water
Fossils, jigsaw puzzles, glacial deposits, mountain ranges.
What is evidence of continental drift?
continent - continent
continent - ocean
ocean - ocean
What are the different types of convergent boundaries?
Sedimentary
What are the second rock in the rock cycle?
Made up ONLY of the parts of the Earth's terrain above the surface
What is a landform?
The process of nutrients/water being drawn up toward the surface, drawing nutrients away from soil. Typically associated with a dry climate.
What is calcification?
The supercontinent that slowly broke apart over hundreds of millions of years.
What is Pangaea?
Earthquakes and tsunamis are a result of this.
What are transform boundaries?
Metamorphic
What are the third rocks in the rock cycle?
15 terrestrial and 5 marine.
How many Ecozones are in Canada?
The process of too much water forcing nutrients down away from plant roots. Associated with wet climates.
What is leaching?