2. JEOPARDY Mrs. Caldera’s 6 th Grade Science Chapter 8 Plate Tectonics

3. THE RULES l Everyone will actively participate. l Each team will decide on a “batting order”. Please write it down. l No penalties for wrong answers, so try. l Each team will be rewarded with points. l Be positive, encourage your teammates. l ALEX is the Judge, all decisions are final.

4. Jeopardy Round Categories are:

5. Plate Tectonics

6. Supercontinent

7. Plate Boundaries

8. Metamorphic Rocks

9. Moving Plates

10. 200 400 600 800 1000 Plate TectonicsSuper- continent Jeopardy End of Round Metamorphic Rocks Moving Plates Plate Boundaries

11. $200 l This type of landform is formed by a mantle plume hot spot. l What is an island chain?

12. $400 l Long chains of undersea mountains are known as _______. l What are mid-ocean ridges?

13. $600 l ________ is the process by which new ocean floor is created and causes the continents to “drift”. l What is sea-floor spreading?

14. $800 l This scientist’s work inspired a tremendous surge in scientific progress on the topic of plate tectonics. l Who is Hess?

15. $1000 l Convection cells in the ______ are responsible for the movement of tectonic plates. l What is Lower Mantle?

16. $200 l ______ is the name given to the ancient supercontinent composed of earlier forms of today’s continents. l What is Pangaea?

17. $400 l _____ was the scientist who put forth the idea of continental drift. l Who is Wegener?

18. $600 l The idea that continents move slowly on Earth’s surface is known as ____________________. l What is continental drift?

19. $800 l Large pieces of Earth’s crust that move over the aesthenosphere are known as __________________. l What are lithospheric plates?

20. $1000 l Wegener’s evidence for continental drift included the matching of these three things. l What are coal beds, mountain ranges, and plant fossils?

21. $200 l The best way to detect transform faults is by the _____ they cause. l What are earthquakes? $200

22. $400 l Older lithospheric plates are cooler plates, and therefore _____ than young plates. l What is denser? $400

23. l A rising mantle plume in the mantle may divide the lithosphere above and form a ______________. l What is mid-ocean ridge? $600

24. $800 l One of the main pieces of evidence for sea-floor spreading is: l What are magnetic patterns? $800

25. $1000 l The valleys that form in the ocean floor when two oceanic plates collide are called… l What are trenches? $1000

26. $200 l Metamorphic rocks are formed from: l What are increasing heat and pressure? $200

27. $400 l A metamorphic rock is formed when heat and pressure change _____, _____, and _____ rocks. l What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic? $400

28. $600 l Continental crust is primarily made of this type of rock. l What is granite? $600

29. $800 l Oceanic crust is primarily made of this type of rock. l What is basalt? $800

30. $1000 l When limestone is squeezed in a convergent plate boundary this forms. l What is marble? $1000

31. $200 $200 l The sinking of one lithospheric plate under another lithospheric plate is known as __________. l What is subduction? $200

32. $400 l Mountain ranges are most often formed at ________ boundaries. l What is convergent? $400

33. $600 l Divergent boundaries found on land are known as: l What are rift valleys? $600

34. $800 l ________ boundaries are found over the rising part of a lower mantle convection cell. l What are divergent? $800

35. $1000 l Old crust is consumed at a __________ plate boundary. l What is convergent? $1000