Science Jeopardy The Earth’s Structure Continental Drift Divergent Plate Boundaries Convergent & Transform Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 Final Jeopardy

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The Earth's Structure 100 ANSWER: The thickest of all the Earth’s layers and what it is made of. QUESTION: What is the mantle and magma?

The Earth's Structure 200 ANSWER: The Earth layer that makes up tectonic plates. QUESTION: What is the lithosphere?

The Earth's Structure 300 ANSWER: The two metals that make up the inner and outer cores. QUESTION: What are iron and nickel?

The Earth's Structure 400 ANSWER: The process in the asthenosphere that is responsible for plate movements. QUESTION: What is convection currents?

The Earth's Structure 500 ANSWER: Name the Earth’s 6 layers alphabetically. QUESTION: What is asthenosphere, crust, inner core, lithosphere, mantle, and outer core?

Continental Drift 100 ANSWER: Huge underwater mountain ranges. QUESTION: What are mid-ocean ridges?

Continental Drift 200 ANSWER: The name of the supercontinent when all continents were joined. QUESTION: What is Pangaea?

Continental Drift 300 ANSWER: The scientist that created the hypothesis of continental drift. QUESTION: Who is Alfred Wegener?

Continental Drift 400 ANSWER: The fossilized reptile discovered in South America and western Africa that supported continental drift. QUESTION: What is the Mesosaurus?

Continental Drift 500 ANSWER: 4 pieces of evidence for the hypothesis of continental drift. QUESTION: What is climate, fossils, geology and the coastlines of Earth’s continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle?

Divergent Plate Boundaries 100 ANSWER: The other term for a divergent boundary in the ocean. QUESTION: What is a spreading center?

Divergent Plate Boundaries 200 ANSWER: This is where hot rock rises from the mantle away from a plate boundary. QUESTION: What is a hot spot?

Divergent Plate Boundaries 300 ANSWER: This is what happens to the crust at a divergent plate boundary. QUESTION: What is it forms?

Divergent Plate Boundaries 400 ANSWER: When divergent plates spread this feature may result on land. QUESTION: What is a rift valley?

Divergent Plate Boundaries 500 ANSWER: There are symmetrical patterns of this at mid-ocean ridges. QUESTION: What are magnetic reversals?

Convergent & Transform 100 ANSWER: This type of convergent plate boundary causes the plates to crumple and fold to make mountains. QUESTION: What is continental-continental collision?

Convergent & Transform 200 ANSWER: 2 plates scrape past each other at this type of plate boundary. QUESTION: What is a transform plate boundary?

Convergent & Transform 300 ANSWER: At this type of plate boundary crust is neither formed nor destroyed. QUESTION: What is a transform plate boundary?

Convergent & Transform 400 ANSWER: The 3 types of convergent plate boundaries. QUESTION: What are continental-continental collision, oceanic-oceanic subduction, and oceanic-continental subduction?

Convergent & Transform 500 ANSWER: Name 3 features that result from subduction boundaries. QUESTION: What is island arcs, deep-ocean trenches, and coastal mountains.

Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 100 ANSWER: The type of plate boundary marked J. QUESTION: What is transform?

Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 200 ANSWER: The layer marked by A. QUESTION: What is the lithosphere? A

Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 400 ANSWER: The plate moving process occurring at location A. QUESTION: What is a slab pull? A

Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 300 ANSWER: The feature represented by A. QUESTION: What is a mid-ocean ridge or spreading center? A

Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 500 ANSWER: The name of the tectonic plate marked by the arrow and the type of convergent boundary it shares with the North American plate. QUESTION: What is the Juan de Fuca Plate and oceanic-continental subduction?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: The two sub-continents that made up the super-continent of Pangaea. QUESTION: What is Laurasia and Gondwanaland?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: The research vessel used to determine the age of sea floor rock. QUESTION: What is the Glomar Challenger?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: Scientists estimate the North American plate is moving southwest at this rate in centimeters per year. QUESTION: What is 2.3 cm?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: The number of years it will take Los Angeles to become a suburb of San Francisco because of movement along the San Andreas Fault. QUESTION: What is 10 million?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: This term in plate tectonics comes from the Latin word “ducere” meaning “to lead.” QUESTION: What is subduction?