Science Jeopardy The Earth System Minerals Rocks Weathering & Soil Erosion & Deposition 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 System: 100 ANSWER: This is an organized group of parts that work together to form a whole. QUESTION: What is a system?

The Earth System: 200 ANSWER: The four parts of the Earth system in alphabetical order. QUESTION: What is the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?

The Earth System: 300 ANSWER: The three layers of the geosphere from densest to least dense. QUESTION: What are the core, mantle and crust?

The Earth System: 400 ANSWER: The percentage of fresh water that makes up Earth’s hydrosphere. QUESTION: What is 3 percent?

The Earth System: 500 ANSWER: Earth is considered a closed system because this cannot enter or leave. QUESTION: What is matter?

Minerals: 100 ANSWER: The least reliable property for identifying a mineral. QUESTION: What is color?

Minerals: 200 ANSWER: The mineral represented in the diagram. QUESTION: What is Halite? Chlorine Sodium

Minerals: 300 ANSWER: The four characteristics of all minerals. QUESTION: What is solid, formed in nature, definite chemical makeup, and crystal structure?

Minerals: 400 ANSWER: The 2 most common rock-forming mineral groups and the elements that make up each. QUESTION: What are the silicates (Si & O) and the carbonates (C & O)?

Minerals: 500 ANSWER: The five methods of mineral formation within Earth and at the surface. QUESTION: What is water evaporating, organisms form shells or bones, hot water cools, molten rocks cools, heat and pressure cause changes?

Rocks: 100 ANSWER: The three types of rocks. QUESTION: What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?

Rocks: 200 ANSWER: The arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy parallel bands. QUESTION: What is foliation?

Rocks: 300 ANSWER: The reason why the sedimentary rock limestone reacts with hydrochloric acid. QUESTION: What is it contains the mineral calcite or carbonate minerals?

Rocks: 400 ANSWER: The type of rock formed at location A. QUESTION: What is an intrusive igneous rock? B A

Rocks: 500 ANSWER: The type and name of a rock made of clay-sized particles. Hint: remember a rock made of sand-sized particles is called sandstone  QUESTION: What is sedimentary and shale?

Weathering & Soil: 100 ANSWER: Two natural processes of chemical weathering. QUESTION: What is rusting and dissolving?

Weathering & Soil: 200 ANSWER: Four natural processes of mechanical weathering. QUESTION: What are ice wedging, exfoliation, plant root growth, and abrasion?

Weathering & Soil: 300 ANSWER: The three factors that influence the rate of weathering of rocks. QUESTION: What is surface area, composition, and climate?

Weathering & Soil: 400 ANSWER: Four soil properties that can be observed and measured. QUESTION: What are texture, color, pore space, and chemistry?

Weathering & Soil: 500 ANSWER: The three main activities of humans that impact soil resources. QUESTION: What are farming, mining, and construction and development?

Erosion & Deposition: 100 ANSWER: The four causes of erosion. QUESTION: What are water, wind, ice, and gravity?

Erosion & Deposition: 200 B A ANSWER: The two features identified by A and B in the picture. QUESTION: What is a meander and an oxbow lake? B A

Erosion & Deposition: 300 ANSWER: Five examples of mass wasting. QUESTION: What are mudflows, rockfalls, rockslides, landslides, slump, and creep.

Erosion & Deposition: 400 ANSWER: A basin that forms when the roof of a cave becomes so thin that it suddenly falls in. QUESTION: What is a sinkhole?

QUESTION: What are lateral, ground, and end moraines and till? Erosion & Deposition: 500 ANSWER: The 3 types of moraines and what they are made of. QUESTION: What are lateral, ground, and end moraines and till?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: 4 of the 6 CRYSTAL groups that all minerals belong to. QUESTION: What is cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorombic, monoclinic, and triclinic?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: 8 of the 10 minerals found on Moh’s hardness scale. QUESTION: What are talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, feldspar, quartz, topaz, corundum, and diamond?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: The 4 metamorphic rocks that shale progressively turns into as it is exposed to higher levels of pressure and heat. QUESTION: What are slate, phyllite, schist and gneiss?

Final Jeopardy ANSWER: One of the two processes by which glaciers move. QUESTION: What are flowing and sliding?