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The period characterised by extensive forest development that produced coalfields across western Europe and eastern North America





































What is the Carboniferous?





































The name of the geological period named after the Roman name for ancient Wales





































What is the Cambrian?





































The geologic Period that abruptly ended at Chicxulub.





































What is the Cretaceous?





































The geologic era that represents "old life"





































What is Paleozoic?





































The epoch we are currently living in





































What is the Holocene?





































The land-dwelling vertebrates that were dominant during the Jurassic





































What were the dinosaurs?





































German meteorologist better known as the father of plate tectonics





































Who was Alfred Wegener?





































Hairy pachyderms prevalent during the recent Ice Age





































What are mammoths or mastodons?





































English geologist and naturalist who ventured on a five year round-the-world voyage with a famous stop on the Galapagos Islands.





































Who was Charles Darwin?





































The greatest figure in the ancient world in the advancement of geography and cartography, who lived in Alexandria in the second century A.D.





































Who was Ptolemy?





































A unit to measure atmospheric pressure.





































What is a bar or millibar?





































A line connecting areas of equal pressure on a map.





































What is an isobar?





































Sand dune of crescentic base outline with sharp crest and steep lee slipface, with crescent points pointing downwind.





































What is a barchan dune





































Coral reef separated from mainland shoreline by a lagoon.





































What is a barrier reef?





































A famous petrologist in the Acadia Geology Department.





































Who is Sandra Barr?





































Colorado, Missouri, Columbia





































What are rivers?





































Slave, Wyoming, Grenville





































What are Precambrian provinces?





































Chinook, Mistral, Santa Ana





































What are local winds





































Mollisol, chernozerm, oxisol





































What are soil types?





































Mollweide, Goode's Homolosine, Mercator cylindrical





































What are map projections?





































The Triassic sandstone that floors the Annapolis Valley





































What is the Wolfville Sandstone?





































The largest plutonic mass in the Appalachians





































South Mountain Batholith





































The unit that contains the most extensive evaporite deposits in Nova Scotia





































What is the Windsor Group?





































The youngest lithified rocks in Nova Scotia





































What is the Scots Bay or McCoy Brook Formation?





































The unit that was quarried locally to construct Horton House.





































What is the White Rock Formation?






































A sandstone island











































What is Prince Edward Island?











































A latin land











































What is Brazil?











































A famous foot











































What is Italy?











































An island arc











































What is Japan?











































A future Gondwanan terrane.











































What is Madagascar?









































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