Jeopardy!
8TH Grade Earth Science
Mr. T
Jeopardy!
Minerals
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Plate
Tectonics
Rocks
Stuff
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Category A - 100
Answer:
Perform a scratch test to determine this mineral
property.
Question:
What is the HARDNESS test?
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Category A - 200
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The color of a mineral’s powder.
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What is streak?
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Category A - 300
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The 5 characteristics of all minerals.
Question:
What is solid, chemical composition, crystal structure, naturally
occurring, and inorganic?
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Category A - 400
Answer:
The basic characteristics of minerals that help us
identify them.
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What is streak, cleavage/fracture, crystal structure,
hardness, color, luster, special properties?
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Category A - 500
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A solid in which the atoms are arranged in a
pattern that repeats again and again.
Question:
What is a crystal?
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Category B - 100
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Composite Volcano.
Question:
What is formed by alternating explosive and quiet
lava outpourings, and its form is a broad base with
steep summit?
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Category B - 200
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Shield Volcano.
Question:
What type of volcano is built entirely from layers of
runny lava from quiet eruptions, causing it to have a
gentle slope?
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Category B - 300
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Cinder Cone Volcano.
Question:
What type of volcano has a very steep hill and is
built entirely out of pyroclastic material?
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Category B - 400
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Pyroclastic material.
Question:
What are cinders, ash and bombs?
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Category B - 500
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Pahoehoe and aa.
Question:
What is the Hawaiian name for the two types of
lavacaused by a quiet eruption ?
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Category C - 100
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Earthquake.
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What is the shaking that results from the movement
of rock beneath Earth’s surface ?
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Category C - 200
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Seismic wave.
Question:
What is a vibration that travels through Earth
carrying energy released during an earthquake?
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Category C - 300
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Epicenter.
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What is the point on Earth’s surface directly above
an earthquake’s focus?
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Category C - 400
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Fault.
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What is a break in Earth’s crust where slabs of rock
slip past each other?
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Category C - 500
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Magnitude.
Question:
What is the measurement of an earthquake’s
strength based on seismic waves and movement
along faults?
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Category D - 100
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CLAMOIC. Crust Lithosphere Asthenosphere
Mesosphere Outer Inner Core
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This acronym list the layers of the Earth?
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Category D - 200
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Granite.
Question:
What rock makes up the continental crust?
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Category D - 300
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Destructive force.
Question:
What force slowly wears away mountains and other
features on the surface of the Earth? Examples are
wind water and weathering?
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Plate Tectonics.
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Subduction.
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The process where the oceanic crust dives under
the continental crust and the crust melts back into
the mantle?
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Category D - 500
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Plate.
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What is a section of the lithosphere that slowly
moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of
oceanic and continental crust?
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Category E - 100
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Igneous rock that was formed inside of earth.
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What is an intrusive igneous rock?
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Category E - 200
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Extrusive igneous rock.
Question:
What kind of rock is formed from lava on Earth’s
surface?
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Category E - 300
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Metamorphic rock.
Question:
What existing rock has gone through changes
through heat and pressure?
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Category E - 400
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Sedimentary rock.
Question:
What kind of rock has formed from particles of small
rocks, sand and plant parts and cemented together
through pressure?
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Category E - 500
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A material that is formed from the elements of
oxygen and silicon.
Question:
What is Silica?
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Category F - 100
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Sea-floor spreading.
Question:
What process by which molten material adds new
oceanic crust to the ocean floor?
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Category F - 200
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Variable.
Question:
What is the factor that can change in an
experiment, the one that you compare against the
control ?
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Category F - 300
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Sill.
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What is a slab of horizontal volcanic rock formed
when magma squeezes between layers of rock?
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Category F - 400
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Rift Valley.
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What is a deep valley that forms where two plates
move apart?
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Category F - 500
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Geothermal energy.
Question:
What is cheap, clean energy from water or steam
that has been heated by magma, and used by
people?
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Minerals
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Plate
Tectonics
Rocks
Stuff
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Category AA - 200
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Not formed from living things or the remains of
living things.
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What is inorganic?
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Category AA - 400
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The term that describes how a mineral reflects light
from its surface.
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What is luster?
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Category AA - 600
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This scale ranks minerals from softest to hardest.
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What is Mohs Hardness scale?
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Category AA - 800
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This mineral rates a 10 on Mohs Hardness scale.
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What is a diamond?
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Category AA - 1000
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This mineral has uses in technology, optometry, is
used in watches, radios, and electricity.
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What is quartz?
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Category BB - 200
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Active.
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What is the term for a volcano that is currently
erupting, or has shown that it will erupt soon?
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Category BB - 400
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Ring of Fire.
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What do we call the circular area along the pacific
plate boundary?
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Category BB - 600
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Hot Spot.
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What is the place called where magma has found a
weak spot in the middle of a plate, and magma
escapes through the crust?
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Category BB - 800
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Caldera.
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What is the place where the summit of the volcano
collapses following the emptying of the magma
chamber, leaving a huge hole?
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Category BB - 1000
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Volcanic Neck.
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What is the name for the hardened magma in a
volcanic pipe, when all the outer layers of the
volcano have worn away through erosion and
weathering?
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Category CC - 200
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P-Wave.
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What is the first seismic wave to arrive following an
earthquake?
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Category CC - 400
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Tsunami.
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What is triggered by an earthquake beneath the
ocean floor?
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Category CC - 600
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Seismograph.
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What is an instrument that measures ground
movement during an earthquake?
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Category CC - 800
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Shearing.
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What is one of the stresses causing an earthquake,
where slabs of rock push in opposite directions?
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Category CC - 1000
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Focus.
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What is the place called where an earthquake
occurs, deep in the Earth’s crust?
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Category DD - 200
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A massive subduction zone, shaped like a ring,
responsible for earthquakes, tsunamis, and
stratovolcanoes.
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What is the Ring of Fire?
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Category DD - 400
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Earthquake monitors measure the changing shape
of seismic waves to determine the layers of the
earth.
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How did scientists construct the interior model of
the earth?
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Category DD - 600
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When subduction zone run beneath a continental
plant and cause stress that gets released in a
seimsic wave.
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What causes intraplate quakes?
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Category DD - 800
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By building disaster safe houses and using early
warning systems.
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What are current ways scientists use to keep
people safe in an earthquake or tsunami?
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Category DD - 1000
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They are waves with an energy focus on the
surface. They also shake your house left to right
and up and down.
Question:
Why are surface waves so destructive.
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Category EE - 200
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Particles of sand and clay are deposited by running
water.
Question:
What is sedimentary?
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EE.
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Sedimentary rock deposits help us support
evolution because living things dies, get buried,
and fossilized.
Question:
What type of stone supports evolution and why?
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Category EE - 600
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Igneous rock is formed from volcanic activity and
cools quickly.
Question:
What type of rock is considered volcanic?
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Category EE - 800
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Metamorphic rock is created deep with in the earth.
Question:
What type of rock is created deep within the earth
using intense pressure?
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Category EE - 1000
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When an rock breaks smoothly.
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What is cleavage?
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Category FF - 200
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Minerals are made of elements (pure) rocks are
made of many minerals.
Question:
How are rocks different from minerals?
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Category FF - 400
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The rate at which rocks and minerals cool.
Question:
What determines crystal size?
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Category FF - 600
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Color, luster, and crystal size.
Question:
How can you identify a mineral?
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FF.
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Answer:
Each step up is about 33x larger. So two steps
would be 66x greater.
Question:
Why is a 4 on the magnitude scale so much more
sever than a 2?
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Category FF - 1000
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Volcanoes that have high gas content, high
viscosity, and silica.
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Why are stratovolcanoes so dangerous?
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Final Jeopardy!
Answer:
New types of quakes like Slow Slip Tremors,
Domino Quakes, Cluster Quakes and core
samples.
Question:
What new discovers are helping scientists better predict
quakes.
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