1. Science Jeopardy
The Earth’s Structure
Continental Drift
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Convergent & Transform
Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics
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3. The Earth's Structure 100
ANSWER: The thickest of all the Earth’s layers and what it is made of.
QUESTION: What is the mantle and magma?

4. The Earth's Structure 200
ANSWER: The Earth layer that makes up tectonic plates.
QUESTION: What is the lithosphere?

5. The Earth's Structure 300
ANSWER: The two metals that make up the inner and outer cores.
QUESTION: What are iron and nickel?

6. The Earth's Structure 400
ANSWER: The process in the asthenosphere that is responsible for plate movements.
QUESTION: What is convection currents?

7. The Earth's Structure 500
ANSWER: Name the Earth’s 6 layers alphabetically.
QUESTION: What is asthenosphere, crust, inner core, lithosphere, mantle, and outer core?

8. Continental Drift 100
ANSWER: Huge underwater mountain ranges.
QUESTION: What are mid-ocean ridges?

9. Continental Drift 200
ANSWER: The name of the supercontinent when all continents were joined.
QUESTION: What is Pangaea?

10. Continental Drift 300
ANSWER: The scientist that created the hypothesis of continental drift.
QUESTION: Who is Alfred Wegener?

11. Continental Drift 400
ANSWER: The fossilized reptile discovered in South America and western Africa that supported continental drift.
QUESTION: What is the Mesosaurus?

12. Continental Drift 500
ANSWER: pieces of evidence for the hypothesis of continental drift.
QUESTION: What is climate, fossils, geology and the coastlines of Earth’s continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle?

13. Divergent Plate Boundaries 100
ANSWER:
The other term for a divergent boundary in the ocean.
QUESTION:
What is a spreading center?

14. Divergent Plate Boundaries 200
ANSWER: This is where hot rock rises from the mantle away from a plate boundary.
QUESTION: What is a hot spot?

15. Divergent Plate Boundaries 300
ANSWER: This is what happens to the crust at a divergent plate boundary.
QUESTION: What is it forms?

16. Divergent Plate Boundaries 400
ANSWER: When divergent plates spread this feature may result on land.
QUESTION: What is a rift valley?

17. Divergent Plate Boundaries 500
ANSWER: There are symmetrical patterns of this at mid-ocean ridges.
QUESTION: What are magnetic reversals?

18. Convergent & Transform 100
ANSWER: This type of convergent plate boundary causes the plates to crumple and fold to make mountains.
QUESTION: What is continental-continental collision?

19. Convergent & Transform 200
ANSWER: plates scrape past each other at this type of plate boundary.
QUESTION: What is a transform plate boundary?

20. Convergent & Transform 300
ANSWER: At this type of plate boundary crust is neither formed nor destroyed.
QUESTION: What is a transform plate boundary?

21. Convergent & Transform 400
ANSWER: The 3 types of convergent plate boundaries.
QUESTION: What are continental-continental collision, oceanic-oceanic subduction, and oceanic-continental subduction?

22. Convergent & Transform 500
ANSWER: Name 3 features that result from subduction boundaries.
QUESTION: What is island arcs, deep-ocean trenches, and coastal mountains.

23. Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 100
ANSWER: The type of plate boundary marked J.
QUESTION: What is transform?

24. Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 200
ANSWER: The layer marked by A.
QUESTION: What is the lithosphere? A

25. Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 400
ANSWER: The plate moving process occurring at location A.
QUESTION: What is a slab pull? A

26. Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 300
ANSWER: The feature represented by A.
QUESTION: What is a mid-ocean ridge or spreading center? A

27. Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics: 500
ANSWER: The name of the tectonic plate marked by the arrow and the type of convergent boundary it shares with the North American plate.
QUESTION: What is the Juan de Fuca Plate and oceanic-continental subduction?

28. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The two sub-continents that made up the super-continent of Pangaea.
QUESTION: What is Laurasia and Gondwanaland?

29. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The research vessel used to determine the age of sea floor rock.
QUESTION: What is the Glomar Challenger?

30. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: Scientists estimate the North American plate is moving southwest at this rate in centimeters per year.
QUESTION: What is 2.3 cm?

31. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The number of years it will take Los Angeles to become a suburb of San Francisco because of movement along the San Andreas Fault.
QUESTION: What is 10 million?

32. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: This term in plate tectonics comes from the Latin word “ducere” meaning “to lead.”
QUESTION: What is subduction?