JEOPARDY Rocks and Minerals Paleontology Earth’s Layers and Heat Transfer W.E.D.S This and That Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 QUESTION FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS What type of rock is sandstone?

$100 ANSWER FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS sedimentary

$200 QUESTION FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS When magma cools and hardens, this type of rock is formed.

$200 ANSWER FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS Igneous rock

$300 QUESTION FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS Heat and pressure form this type of rock

$300 ANSWER FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS Metamorphic rock

$400 QUESTION FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS What are the FIVE processes involved in sedimentary rock formation?

$400 ANSWER FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS Weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation

$500 QUESTION FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS List the 5 characteristics of minerals

$500 ANSWER FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS Naturally occurring Solid Inorganic Definite chemical composition Crystal structure

$100 QUESTION FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY The Law of Superposition if often used to help understand Earth’s history. This law helps scientists determine the ____________ age of rocks.

$100 ANSWER FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY Relative age

$200 QUESTION FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY The fossil record shows that life on Earth has changed over time. For example, paleontologists have found that older rocks contain fossils of ____________ organisms.

$200 ANSWER FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY Simple

$300 QUESTION FROM PALEONTOLOGY Trilobites are a form of life which existed during limited periods of geologic time. Therefore, they are used as guides to the relative age of the rocks in which they are preserved. This makes trilobites __________.

$300 ANSWER FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY Index fossil

$400 QUESTION FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY How do scientists know that dinosaurs and horses did not exist in the same geologic era?

$400 ANSWER FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY Fossils of horses and dinosaurs were not found in the same rock layer.

$500 QUESTION FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY What evidence did scientists use to determine where one period of geologic time ended and the next one began?

$500 ANSWER FROM PALEONTOLOGY & ECOLOGY Evidence from the fossil record

$100 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer The crust is composed of __________ and ___________.

$100 Answer from earth’s layers and heat transfer Basalt and granite

$200 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer The Earth’s asthenosphere is

$200 Answer from earth’s layers and heat transfer A layer of soft, flowing rock

$300 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer What causes convection currents?

$300 Answer from earth’s layers and heat transfer When the molten material in the mantle heats up decreasing its density and rising to the surface as less dense material sinks.

$400 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer This layer is located above the asthenosphere and is composed of the upper mantle and the crust.

$400 Answer from earth’s layers and heat transfer lithosphere

$500 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer If the temperature of the Earth’s layers increases by about 100 degrees Fahrenheit ( ◦ F) for every 1 kilometer from the surface and you are estimating the temperature at a depth of 2,000 kilometers below the surface, how hot would it be at which layer of Earth’s interior?

$500 Answer from earth’s layers and heat transfer 200,000 °F

$100 QUESTION FROM W.E.D.S What most likely causes the change in the appearance of ancient statues?

$100 ANSWER FROM W.E.D.S Both chemical and mechanical weathering

$200 QUESTION FROM W.E.D.S One of the soil horizons is made up of clay and other particles but little humus. What is this layer called?

$200 ANSWER FROM W.E.D.S Horizon B

$300 QUESTION FROM W.E.D.S What is soil composed of?

$300 ANSWER FROM W.E.D.S Weathered rock and organic matter

$400 QUESTION FROM W.E.D.S When does the development of soil begin?

$400 ANSWER FROM W.E.D.S When rock begins to weather

$500 QUESTION FROM W.E.D.S A geologist wants to study the rate of weathering in different climates. He leaves identical pieces of limestone in the following locations – the Amazon rainforest, North Pole, Sahara desert and the South Pole. Where will the rock weather the most?

$500 ANSWER FROM W.E.D.S Amazon Rainforest

$100 QUESTION FROM THIS AND THAT A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate it is used is called a ___________ resource.

$100 ANSWER FROM THIS AND THAT Renewable resource

$200 QUESTION FROM THIS AND THAT Beginning in the late 1800’s farmers in the Great Plains region of the U.S. plowed the land to increase the amount of space available for farming. To do this, the grass was removed and bare soil was exposed. What affect did plowing have on the soil after several years of drought?

$200 ANSWER FROM THIS AND THAT Plowing and exposing the soil caused it to turn to dust and blow away.

$300 QUESTION FROM THIS AND THAT Hydroelectric power and wind energy are powered by what major source of energy?

$300 ANSWER FROM THIS AND THAT Solar energy

$400 QUESTION FROM THIS AND THAT What is the name of the supercontinent that Alfred Wegener thought our continents broke apart from called?

$400 ANSWER FROM THIS AND THAT Pangaea

$500 QUESTION FROM THIS AND THAT The process involving magma leaking into the ocean at a mid-ocean ridge creating new oceanic crust is called ________.

$500 ANSWER FROM THIS AND THAT Sea-floor spreading

FINAL JEOPARDY How is deposition is involved in forming a beach?

FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER As waves travel through the ocean they carry sediments. The waves slow down as they get closer to the shore and drop off the sediment. Over time, the sediments pile up and form a beach.