Jeopardy
Section 1 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 600 600 600 600 600 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Mixed
An idea of something that can’t be fully known or seen.
What is a model?
Someone who studies the earth.
What is a geologist?
The outer layer of the earth made of solid rock.
What is the crust?
The first place the rock breaks below the surface in an earthquake.
What is the focus?
The scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
A device used to measure minute changes in the angle of the ground’s slope.
What is a surveyor’s level?
Made up of minerals.
What is a rock?
The colour of the powder that if left behind when you rub a rock across a rough surface.
What is the streak?
10 minerals ranked in order of hardness.
What is Moh’s Scale of Hardness?
Formed from magma and lava.
What is igneous rock?
Formed from intense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
Process by which rock changes from one form to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
The scientist behind the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Valleys under the ocean near the edge of continents.
What are trenches?
The idea that the continental crust is broken into large pieces.
What is the Theory of the Plate Tectonics?
Daily Double
Plates moving towards each other.
What is a converging boundary?
Large cracks in the rock; involved in mountain building.
What is a fault?
The upfold in a rock.
What is an anticline?
Traces of once living things.
What are fossils?
Layers of sediment that have formed over millions of years.
What are strata?
Appeared before multi-celled organisms.
What are single celled organisms?
Located in the Badlands of Alberta.
What is the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology ?
Daily Double
Geologic time interval.
What is an era?
When reptiles and insects first appeared on Earth.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
Igneous rock formed from magma.
What is intrusive rock?
When the heavier oceanic crust is pushed below the lighter continental crust.
What is Subduction?
Several processes involved in creating mountains.
What is mountain building?
4.6 Billion years.
What is the estimated age of the Earth?
Making chemical analysis of samples taken from the environment.
What is Geochemical Prospecting?
When rock is broken apart by physical forces.
What is mechanical weathering?