Science Jeopardy…
Chapter 1 - Plate Tectonics
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Vocabulary
Layers of the Earth
Heat Transfer and Continental Drift
Sea-floor Spreading
Plate Tectonics (boundaries)
Heat Transfer/
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Layers
of Earth
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Continental
Drift
Sea-floor
Spreading
Plate
Boundaries
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Vocabulary - $100
Heat transfer by the movement of a
heated fluid.
What is convection?
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Vocabulary - $200
A measure of how much mass there is in a
volume of a substance.
What is density?
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Vocabulary - $300
The process by which the ocean floor sinks
beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into
the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
What is subduction?
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Vocabulary - $400
Scientists who study the forces that make
and shape the planet Earth.
Who are geologists?
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The process that continually adds new
material to the ocean floor.
What is sea-floor spreading?
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Layers of the Earth - $100
This layer consists mainly of granite and
basalt.
What is the crust?
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Layers of the Earth - $200
The part of the mantle that can bend like
plastic.
What is the asthenosphere?
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Layers of the Earth - $300
Includes all of the crust and part of the
mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
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Layers of the Earth - $400
The 6 layers of the earth from innermost
to outermost.
What are the inner core, outer core,
mantle, asthenosphere, lithosphere, and
crust?
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Layers of the Earth - $500
The major difference between the inner
and outer core.
What is the inner core is a solid and the
outer core is a liquid? Both are made of iron
and nickel.
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Heat Transfer/
Continental Drift - $100
The transfer of energy through empty
space.
What is radiation?
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Heat Transfer/
Continental Drift - $200
This man proposed the theory of continental
drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
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Heat Transfer/
Continental Drift - $300
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Heat Transfer/
Continental Drift - $400
The reason scientists rejected Wegener’s
theory .
What is he could not explain how Pangaea
separated?
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Heat Transfer/
Continental Drift - $500
The 3 types of evidence that Wegener
used to support this theory of continental
drift.
What are landforms, fossils, and climate ?
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Sea-floor Spreading - $100
This ocean is getting larger each year .
What are the Atlantic Ocean?
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Sea-floor Spreading - $200
The longest chain of mountains in the world.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
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Sea-floor Spreading - $300
As oceanic crust moves away from the
mid-ocean ridge, it becomes _________
and ___________.
What is cooler and more dense?
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Sea-floor Spreading - $400
The 3 types of evidence for Sea-floor
spreading.
What are molten material, magnetic stripes,
and drilling samples?
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Sea-floor Spreading - $500
Explain the steps involved in the
continuous process of sea-floor spreading.
What are convection currents in the
asthenosphere, molten material erupting
from the mid-ocean ridge, sea-floor spreads
as material cools and becomes more dense,
then denser material subducts back into the
mantle?
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Plate Boundaries - $100
The process that powers plate tectonics.
What is convection?
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Plate Boundaries - $200
The separate sections that Earth’s
lithosphere is broken into.
What are plates?
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Plate Boundaries - $300
A place where two plates slip past each
other.
What is a transform boundary?
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Plate Boundaries - $400
A rift valley forms when two continental
plates ___________.
What is diverge?
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Plate Boundaries - $500
Label the following types of plate boundaries.
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A
B
D
F
E
A = divergent o/oE = convergent o/o
B = convergent o/c
C = transform
D = divergent c/c
F = convergent c/c
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Heat Transfer/
Continental Drift --The 3 things that cause convection
currents.
What are change in temperature, change
in density, and gravity?
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