Earth Jeopardy! Weather Minerals Rocks Weathering Earth’s Surface Earth’s Movement 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

What is the middle of a hurricane called? Weather for 100 What is the middle of a hurricane called? Answer: The Eye

What is the middle of a tornado called? Weather for 200 What is the middle of a tornado called? Answer: Vortex

Weather for 300 How are hurricanes classified? Answer: By their wind speed

Weather for 400 What is the rise is sea level caused by a hurricane’s winds called? Answer: Storm Surge

Weather for 500 Where do hurricane’s form? Tornados? Answer: Water; land

Minerals 100 What areNatural, nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks are called? Answer: Minerals

All rocks are made of minerals True or False All rocks are made of minerals Answer: True

Minerals 300 What is the name of the scale used to classify minerals? Answer: MOHS Scale

Minerals 400 What is the best property to use to classify a mineral? Answer: The minerals streak

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True or False Minerals for 500 Minerals are found in the food we eat. Answer:True

Rocks 100 What is eroded material that settles at the bottom of lakes, rivers, and oceans called? Answer: Sediment

Rocks 200 What are rocks that form when layers of particles cement together and harden called? Answer: Sedimentary Rocks

Rocks for 300 What are rocks that form when molten rock cools and harden called? Answer: Igneous Rock

Rocks for 400 What are rocks that have changed due to constant heat and pressure called? Answer: Metamorphic Rock

Rocks for 500 The rock cycle is a process that is NOT always occurring. True or False Answer: False

What is the process that breaks down rocks called? Weathering for 100 What is the process that breaks down rocks called? Answer: Weathering

What are the two different types of weathering? Weathering for 200 What are the two different types of weathering? Answer: Chemical and physical

Weathering for 300 Water freezing in the cracks of rocks is a type of __________weathering. Answer: Physical

Weathering for 400 Acids in rainwater is a type of ___________ weathering. Answer: chemical

Weathering for 500 Flowing water is a type of __________ weathering Answer: Physical

Earth’s Surface for 100 What is the movement of weathered rocks called? Answer: Erosion

Earth’s Surface for 200 What is the laying down of weathered material called? Answer: Deposition

Earth’s Surface for 300 What causes a landslide? Answer: Gravity

Earth’s Surface for 400 Name one way you can help reduce erosion. Answer: Check

Earth’s Surface for 500 Can glaciers cause erosion when they move? How? Answer: Yes

What does the earth rotates on? Earth’s Movement for 100 What does the earth rotates on? Answer: It’s Axis

Earth’s Movement for 200 What is one revolution equal to? Answer: 1 trip around the sun

Earth’s Movement for 300 What is it called when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow? Answer: Lunar Eclipse

Earth’s Movement for 400 What is the shape of Earth’s orbit around the sun? Answer: An Ellipse

Earth’s Movement for 500 What causes night and day and seasons on earth? Explain Answer: Check