Rocks Jeopardy
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary
Rocks
Metamorphic
Rocks
Rock Cycle and
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1st Semester
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©Norman Herr, 2003
A-100
• ANSWER: Igneous rocks form from this?
• QUESTION: lava or magma
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A-200
• ANSWER: Name one igneous rock
• QUESTION:
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A-300
• ANSWER: You find an igneous rock with
fine grained crystals. Where did it form?
• QUESTION: On the surface of the Earth,
extrusive
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A-400
• ANSWER: What is the main difference
between mafic and felsic igneous rocks?
• QUESTION: Color, felsic are light
colored and mafic are dark colored.
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A-500
• ANSWER: Igneous rocks that have large
crystals cooled either slowly or quickly,
and either above ground or below
ground. Choose!!!
• QUESTION: slowly, below ground
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B-100
• ANSWER: Describe what sediment is..
• QUESTION: Broken pieces of rock, dirt,
silt, etc.
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B-200
• ANSWER: What two things must happen
to sediment to form into a sedimentary
rock?
• QUESTION: Get compacted and
cemented together
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B-300
• ANSWER: Within 5%, how much of the
Earth’s crust is covered by sediments and
sedimentary rock?
• QUESTION: 80%
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B-400
• ANSWER: There are three main types of
sedimentary rocks. Name one type….
• QUESTION: Clastic, organic or
chemical.
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B-500
• ANSWER: Define weathering and give
two examples of causes of weathering on
the surface of the Earth.
• QUESTION: Weathering is the
breakdown of rock. Two examples could
be wind, water or heat.
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C-100
• ANSWER: What two processes will
change a rock into a metamorphic rock?
• QUESTION: Heat and Pressure
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C-200
• ANSWER: The word foliated in
metamorphic rock means what?
• QUESTION: The rock has layers or
bands of minerals.
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C-300
• ANSWER: What is the nickname for
metamorphic rocks. It comes from a
Disney movie.
• QUESTION: The cinderella rock
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C-400
• ANSWER: Name the 2 types of
metamorphism that can occur.
• QUESTION: Regional and Contact
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C-500
• ANSWER: The word metamorphic
means ____________
• QUESTION: To Change Form
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D-100
• ANSWER: Define the rock cycle.
• QUESTION: The cycling of rock from
one form to another, or the recycling of
Earth’s material.
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D-200
• ANSWER: What type of rock is the
original/first rock on the Earth?
• QUESTION: Igneous
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D-300
• ANSWER: Why do fossils only form in
sedimentary rocks?
• QUESTION: Too much heat and or
pressure in igneous and metamorphic.
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D-400
• ANSWER: Limestone will undergo
metamorphism to turn into this rock???
• QUESTION: Marble
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D-500
• ANSWER: Name four process that must
happen to a rock to become sediment,
then possible form into a sedimentary
rock.
• QUESTION: weathering, erosion,
deposition, burial, compaction,
cementation
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E-100
• ANSWER: How many stars are in our
solar system?
• QUESTION: One
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E-200
• ANSWER: Name the theory that
describes the origin of our universe?
• QUESTION: Big Bang
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E-300
• ANSWER: Name the point on the surface
directly above the focus of an earthquake
• QUESTION: epicenter
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E-400
• ANSWER: Name the three types of plate
boundaries
• QUESTION: Convergent, Divergent,
Transform
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E-500
• ANSWER: Which type of star is our
Sun?
• QUESTION: Main Sequence
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: Name one igneous, one
sedimentary and one metamorphic rock.
• QUESTION:
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