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Jeopardy Earth Science

Jeopardy 200 400 600 800 1000 Final Jeopardy Earth's Interior Convection and the Mantle Drifting Continents Sea-Floor Spreading The Theory of Plate Tectonics Capture the Chapter 200 400 600 800 1000

Earth's Interior for 200 Continental crust consists mainly of the rock ______________. What is granite? Back to Jeopardy

Earth's Interior for 400 Scientists who study the forces that make and shape the planet Earth are called _____________________ What are geologists? Back to Jeopardy

What is the asthenosphere? Earth's Interior for 600 The _________________ is the part of the mantle that can bend like plastic. What is the asthenosphere? Back to Jeopardy

Earth's Interior for 800 What is the crust? Back to Jeopardy The lithosphere includes all of the _____________ and part of the mantle. What is the crust? Back to Jeopardy

What are inner core, outer Earth's Interior for 1000 Name each of the layers of the Earth’s interior from innermost layer to outermost layer. What are inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust? Back to Jeopardy

Convection and the Mantle for 200 In the convection, the cooler, denser fluid ______ to the bottom. What is sinks? Back to Jeopardy

Convection and the Mantle for 400 A deep valley where plates move apart is called a _________________. What is a divergent boundary? Back to Jeopardy

Convection and the Mantle for 600 Heat transfer by the movement of a heated fluid is called _____________. What is convection? Back to Jeopardy

Convection and the Mantle for 800 ________________ is a measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance. What is density? Back to Jeopardy

Convection and the Mantle for 1000 The San Andreas Fault is a famous example of this type of plate boundary . What is a transform plate boundary? Back to Jeopardy

Drifting Continents for 200 This is who first proposed the theory of continental drift. Who is Alfred Wegener? Back to Jeopardy

Drifting Continents for 400 The supercontinent that began to break apart a long time ago is called ___________. What is Pangaea? Back to Jeopardy

Drifting Continents for 600 Oceanic crust is consumed and returns to the Earth’s mantle during this process at some convergent plate boundaries. . What is subduction? Back to Jeopardy

Drifting Continents for 800 Scientists rejected Wegener’s theory because he could not explain what force pushes or pulls __________________. What are continents? Back to Jeopardy

Drifting Continents for 1000 The plates of the lithosphere move on the ________, which is very hot and semiliquid. What is the asthenosphere? Back to Jeopardy

Sea-Floor Spreading for 200 This is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath trenches. What is subduction? Back to Jeopardy

Sea-Floor Spreading for 400 This is what erupts through the valley of the mid-ocean ridge. What is molten material or magma? Back to Jeopardy

Sea-Floor Spreading for 600 The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is _____________________. What is sea-floor spreading? Back to Jeopardy

Sea-Floor Spreading for 800 As oceanic crust moves away from the ___________________, it cools and becomes more dense. What is the mid-ocean ridge? Back to Jeopardy

Sea-Floor Spreading for 1000 A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks towards the mantle. Trench or Deep Ocean Trench Back to Jeopardy

The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 200 A break in Earth’s crust where rocks have slipped past each other is called a ______________. What is a fault? Back to Jeopardy

The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 400 Earth’s lithosphere is broken into separate sections called __________. What are plates? Back to Jeopardy

The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 600 A _____________ boundary is a place where two plates slip past each other. What is transform? Back to Jeopardy

The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 800 A rift valley forms along a __________ boundary on land. What is divergent? Back to Jeopardy

The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 1000 The movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another. This is believed to cause Earth’s plates to move. What are convection currents Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 200 This is where the lithosphere is located on a model of the Earth’s interior. What is in the mantle, just below the crust? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 400 This is the major difference between the inner core and the outer core. What is the inner core is solid and the outer core is molten? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 600 If a divergent boundary occurred on land, this is the name of the land form it would eventually create. What is a rift valley? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 800 These are the three different types of convergent boundaries that could occur on Earth’s surface. What are oceanic-oceanic, oceanic- continental, and continental-continental? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 1000 The type of rocks found in continental crust and oceanic. Which is why oceanic crust sinks beneath continental crust. What is oceanic crust is made of basalt and continental crust is made up of granite? Basalt is more dense than granite. Back to Jeopardy

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Final Jeopardy What is a well-tested concept that explains This is the definition for a scientific theory. What is a well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations? Back to Double Jeopardy

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