Plates Plate Tectonics Jeopardy Boundaries Run for your life ! Geological Time Misc.

There are two different types of plates that make up the crust of the Earth. One is oceanic the other is... Plates for 100 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Continental

At convergent plate boundaries often one plate goes underneath the other. What scientific name are these locations called? Plates for 200 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Subduction Zones Push the Space Bar to check your answer.

Plates for 300 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Juan de Fuca Plate What is the name of the tiny plate just off the coast of Washington state?

Plates for 400 Satellite images show that the continents are moving a few centimeters each year. What are two other pieces of evidence that we’ve studied that support the Theory of Plate Tectonics? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Fossils Rock Layers

Plates for 500 Here is a map of the Earth’s major tectonic plates. What do the black lines represent? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Plate Boundaries

Boundaries for 100 Mountains ranges are formed by which type of boundary… divergent, transform, or convergent? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Convergent

Boundaries for 200 The divergent Mid Atlantic Ridge is located on the ocean floor of what ocean? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. The Atlantic Ocean

Boundaries for 300 What type of boundary is shown here? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Convergent

Boundaries for 400 What type of boundary is shown here? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Divergent Oceanic Crust

Boundaries for 500 What is the name for this transform boundary located in California? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. San Andreas Fault \

Run for your life! for 100 What state in America has the greatest number of earthquakes? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. California

Run for your life! for 200 What is the name of the volcano that erupted in Washington State in 1980? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Mt. St. Helens

Run for your life! for 300 Are the volcanoes in Washington state the kind that are explosive or the kind that ooze lava? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Explosive

Run for your life! for 400 What type of geological process can happen at any boundary around the world? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Earthquake

Run for your life! for 500 Where would earthquakes happen under the ocean? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. At the plate boundaries

Geological Time for 100 What do scientists believe came first…plants or animals? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. plants

Geological Time for 200 True or False: Dinosaurs and cavemen existed together. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. False

Geological Time for 300 What is the most logical reason why plant fossils are older than animal fossils? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. The plants were food for many of the animals.

Geological Time for 400 Scientists believe the Earth is about how old? Hundreds, thousands, millions, or billions of years old?? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Billions

Geological Time for 500 In what order did these events occur? From oldest (long time ago) to youngest (most recent)? First Reptiles, First land plants, First humans, Dinosaurs became extinct? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. First land plants First Reptiles Dinosaurs became extinct First humans

Misc. for 100 What is “Pangaea”? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. The “super continent” that once existed on Earth

Misc. for 200 What is Alfred Wegener famous for? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. He was the scientist who came up with the Idea of Continental Drift

Misc. for 300 Underwater earthquakes can trigger what type of big wave that can be very dangerous? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Tsunami

Misc. for 400 What mountain range are both Mt Rainier and Mt. St. Helens located in? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Cascade Range

Misc. for 500 What are the ingredients to make your own model volcano erupt? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. baking soda and vinegar