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Believe it or not Shake-n-bake Lets rumble Paper Plates That’s tectonic Magic Man 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

I’m an area of volcanic activity that often forms island chains and develops over rising plumes of magma A 100

Hot spot A 100

I’m am the term that is used to describe when one plate sinks below another.

Subduction or a Subduction Zone A 200

The place where two plates move past each other in opposite directions is referred to as.

A transform boundary A 300

I state the Earth’s lithosphere is broken into huge, moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle. A 400

The theory of plate tectonics

I am the name that Alfred Wegener gave to the huge supercontinent that he proposed had once existed.

Pangaea. A 500

I’m all the land and geographical features of the earth B 100

Geosphere B 100

I’m the place where two plates converge, or push together B 200

Convergent boundary B 200

The hypothesis that proposed that Earth’s continents were once joined in a single large landmass and then gradually moved apart. B 300

Theory of continental drift B 300

I’m the layer of hotter, softer rock in the upper mantle B 400

Asthenosphere B 400

I’m the protective layer of gases which surrounds earth. B 500

Atmosphere B 500

At which subduction zone do two different kinds of plates interact?

Oceanic-continental Subduction

I’m the layer of liquid metals that surrounds the inner core.

Outer core C 200

I’m the thin layer of rock that surrounds the earth.

Crust C 300

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I’m the gap that forms as tectonic plates move apart

Rift Valley C 400

I’m all the water on earth C 500

Hydrosphere. C 500

I occur where plates with continental crusts push together. D 100

Continental-continental collision D 100

I’m a ball of hot, solid metals at Earth’s center.

Inner core D 200

I’m the large and small slabs of rock that make up pieces of the lithosphere

Tectonic Plate D 300

I am the term used when one oceanic plate is pushed under another.

Oceanic-oceanic subduction

I’m earth’s thickest layer, measuring nearly 2900km. D 500

Mantle D 500

I am the term used when two tectonic plates move apart.

Divergent Boundary E 100

I include all living parts of the earth on land, in the air, and in the water.

The biosphere E 200

Name the two parts of the lithosphere.

The Earth’s crust and the upper part of the mantle.

Provide the example we used from class. What Geologic Formation is created as an oceanic and a continental plate converge? Provide the example we used from class. E 400

A chain of volcanic mountains. Example from class: The Andes Mountains E 400

What Geologic formation occurs when two continental plates diverge? Identify the example used in class. E 500

The East African Rift Valley. A rift valley Example from class: The East African Rift Valley. E 500

Name the four spheres of the Earth.

The biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. F 100

Name the four layers of the Earth and describe each of them.

Crust, mantle, inner core, outer core. (desriptions will vary.) F 200

When thinking of plate tectonics, what are the three types of boundaries?

Convergent, divergent, and transform.

Identify the example used in class. What geologic formation is created when two continental Plates converge? Identify the example used in class. F 400

Folded Mountains Example from class: Himalayan mountains F 400

At what kind of boundary does a rift valley occur?

At a divergent boundary. F 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is: Alfred Wegner is the man! Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin

Click on screen to continue Name the three forms of evidence used to support the theory of continental drift. Click on screen to continue

The presence of fossils, climate change, and geology. Click on screen to continue

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