JEOPARDY Mrs. Beyenhof’s 6th Grade Science Chapter 8 Plate Tectonics

THE RULES ALEX is the Judge, all decisions are final. Everyone will actively participate. Each team will decide on a “batting order”. Please write it down. No penalties for wrong answers, so try. Each team will be rewarded with points. Be positive, encourage your teammates. ALEX is the Judge, all decisions are final.

Jeopardy Round Categories are:

Plate Tectonics

Supercontinent

Plate Boundaries

Metamorphic Rocks

Moving Plates

Jeopardy Plate Tectonics Super-continent Metamorphic Rocks Moving Plates Plate Boundaries 200 200 200 200 200 400 400 400 400 400 600 600 600 600 600 800 800 800 800 800 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 End of Round

This type of landform is formed by a mantle plume hot spot. $200 This type of landform is formed by a mantle plume hot spot. What is an island chain?

Long chains of undersea mountains are known as _______. $400 Long chains of undersea mountains are known as _______. What are mid-ocean ridges?

$600 ________ is the process by which new ocean floor is created and causes the continents to “drift”. What is sea-floor spreading?

$800 This scientist’s work inspired a tremendous surge in scientific progress on the topic of plate tectonics? Who is Hess?

$1000 Convection cells in the ______ are responsible for the movement of tectonic plates. What is Lower Mantle?

$200 ______ is the name given to the ancient supercontinent composed of earlier forms of today’s continents. What is Pangaea?

_____ was the scientist who put forth the idea of continental drift. $400 _____ was the scientist who put forth the idea of continental drift. Who is Wegener?

What is continental drift? $600 The idea that continents move slowly on Earth’s surface is known as ____________________. What is continental drift?

What are lithospheric plates? $800 Large pieces of Earth’s crust that move over the aesthenosphere are known as __________________. What are lithospheric plates?

$1000 Wegener’s evidence for continental drift included the matching of these three things. What are coal beds, mountain ranges, and plant fossils?

$200 $200 The best way to detect transform faults is by the _____ they cause. What are earthquakes?

$400 $400 Older lithospheric plates are cooler plates, and therefore _____ than young plates. What is denser?

$600 $600 A rising mantle plume in the mantle may divide the lithosphere above and form a ______________. What is mid-ocean ridge?

$800 One of the main pieces of evidence for sea-floor spreading is: What are magnetic patterns?

$1000 $1000 The valleys that form in the ocean floor when two oceanic plates collide are called… What are trenches?

$200 Metamorphic rocks are formed from: What are increasing heat and pressure?

$400 $400 A metamorphic rock is formed when heat and pressure change _____, _____, and _____ rocks. What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?

$600 Continental crust is primarily made of this type of rock. What is granite?

$800 Oceanic crust is primarily made of this type of rock. What is basalt?

$1000 $1000 When limestone is squeezed in a convergent plate boundary this forms. What is marble?

$200 $200 The sinking of one lithospheric plate under another lithospheric plate is known as __________. What is subduction?

$400 Mountain ranges are most often formed at ________ boundaries. What is convergent?

$600 Divergent boundaries found on land are known as: What are rift valleys?

$800 $800 ________ boundaries are found over the rising part of a lower mantle convection cell. What are divergent?

Old crust is consumed at a __________ plate boundary? $1000 $1000 Old crust is consumed at a __________ plate boundary? What is convergent?

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