6th grade Trimester 2 Exam Review
Jeopardy
Directions:
-4 teams of approx. 6 students. One person from each team plays at a time.
-Teams take turns picking
-If one player gets the right answer, their team earns that number of points.
-You will not lose points for wrong answers.
-If an answer needs to be more specific, we will ask you.
-There is one magic square on the board. If a team gets it, they can wager as many points as they have.
They can wager up to 300, if they have no points.
-There will be a final jeopardy at the end. You can lose points in that
Minerals:
100 – A mineral that breaks along flat surfaces has ___?
Cleavage
200 – What is created when sugar is mixed with water?
Solution
300 – What scientist developed a method of identifying rocks based on their hardness?
Friedrich Moh
400 – What are the 5 characteristics of minerals?
Naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, Crystal structure, Definite Chemical composition
Volcanoes:
100 – What type of volcano is steep and primarily made up of volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs?
Cinder Cone
200 – Hawaii is an example of ___, where magma deep within the mantle melts the crust above it?
Hot spot
300 – What is the name given to a string of islands formed by volcanoes along a deep ocean trench?
Island Arc
400 – What name is given to a volcano that collapses inward?
Caldera
Earthquakes:
100 – Name the three types of waves created by earthquakes in the order they arrive at a seismograph?
P wave, S Wave, Surface Waves
200 – What is the name given to the specific location at what an earthquake occurs?
Focus
300 – What is the term given to any change in the volume or shape of the Earth’s crust is?
Deformation
400 – What type of fault is located at the mid ocean ridge?
Divergent Boundary = NORMAL FAULT
Inside Earth:
100 – What is the theory call where pieces of Earth’s lithosphere are in constant motion?
Plate Tectonics
200 – What type of stress is cause when two plates are moving in opposite directions?
Tension
300 – What type of heat transfer occurs when the sun heats the Earth
Radiation
400 – Who came up with the theory of continental drift? (magic square)?
Alfred Wegener
Rocks:
100 – What type of rock is formed from cooling lava?
Igneous
200 – What type of rock forms when rock undergoes erosion and cementation amongst other things?
Sedimentary
300 – What is the name of a structure made of calcite skeletons built up by animals in warm, shallow
ocean water?
Coral Reef
400 – ___ rock forms when minerals dissolved in solution crystallize?
Chemical
Final Jeopardy
-Name the layers of the Earth in order including the lithosphere and asthenosphere.