Geology Chapter 1 Jeopardy
$100 The Earth’s thinnest layer.
$100 What is… the Crust?
$200 This layer is made of Granite and Basalt
$200 What is… the Crust?
$300 This layer is made mostly of melted iron.
$300 What is… Outer Core
$400 This layer causes Earth’s magnetic field because it spins.
$400 What is… Inner Core.
$500 Convection currents take place here.
$500 What is… Mantle (Asthenosphere) & Outer Core
$100 Heat transferred through the empty space is called…
$100 What is… Radiation
$200 Heat transferred through fluid is called…
$200 What is… Convection
$300 Heat transferred through solids is called…
$300 What is… Conduction
$400 The sun heating the Earth is an example of….
$400 What is… Radiation
$500 The Earth’s convection currents take place in the…
$500 What is… Asthenosphere & Outer Core
$100 Which of the following is NOT evidence of sea floor spreading. Drilling samples C A B D Fossils Molten Material Magnetic Stripes
$100 What is… B Fossils
$200 Rocks the form when molten material cools and hardens quickly in water are called… (Evidence of Sea-Floor Spreading)
$200 What is… Pillow Lava
$300 These show that the magnetic poles of the Earth have reversed.
$300 What is… Magnetic Stripes on the ocean floor
$400 The process by which the ocean crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle
$400 What is… Subduction
$500 The longest chain of mountains in the world is the…
$500 What is… Mid-Ocean Ridge
$100 The man responsible for the theory of continental drift
$100 What is… Alfred Wegener
$200 Which of the following is NOT evidence of continental drift… Climate Landforms C A B D Global Warming Fossils
$200 What is… B Global Warming
$300 The name of the supercontinent theorized by Wegener
$300 What is… Pangaea.
$400 The main reason Wegener’s theory was not accepted
$400 What is… He could not explain the force that made the continents move.
$500 Continental drift is caused by…
$500 What is… Convection currents.
$100 A scientist who studies the forces that make and shape planet Earth.
$100 What is… Geologist
$200 Used to determine the interior structure of the Earth
$200 What is… Seismic Waves
$300 List the layers of the Earth from outermost to inner most
$300 What is… Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
$400 Where the crust is the thickest
$400 What is… Under the mountains
$500 A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust
$500 What is… Lithosphere
Final Jeopardy Explain how a convection current works