1. Evolution Jeopardy
Geologic Time
Fossil Record
Relative Dating
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Plate Tectonics
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3. A-100 QUESTION: What do we call the history of the Earth?
ANSWER: Geologic Time

4. A-200
QUESTION: What are the remains or impressions of an organism that lived in the past called?
ANSWER: Fossils

5. A-300 QUESTION: During which Era did early human appear?
ANSWER: Cenozoic

6. A-400
QUESTION: What Era did life evolve?
ANSWER: Precambrian

7. A-500
QUESTION: Which Era did fish evolve?
ANSWER: Paleozoic

8. B-100
QUESTION: What are a collection of all fossils that have been found since the study of fossils began?
ANSWER: Fossil Record

9. B-200
QUESTION: What are the remains of animals that existed for a relatively short period of geologic time?
ANSWER: Index Fossils

10. B-300
QUESTION: Which part of the organism has a better chance to become fossilized?
ANSWER: Bones or shells

11. B-400
QUESTION: Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and ash deposits are examples of?
ANSWER: Catastrophic Events

12. B-500
QUESTION: How many organisms that have lived on Earth does the fossil record represent?
ANSWER: .1%

13. C-100 QUESTION: What are layers of sedimentary rocks called?
ANSWER: rock strata

14. C-200
QUESTION: What kind of rock dating technique compares one rock layer to another rock layer?
ANSWER: relative dating

15. C-300
QUESTION: This states that each sedimentary rock unit is older than the rock unit above it and younger than the unit below it.
ANSWER: Law of Superposition

16. C-400
QUESTION: What do you call a break in the sedimentary geologic record?
ANSWER: unconformity

17. C-500 QUESTION: What causes an unconformity?
ANSWER: Nondeposition or erosion

18. D-100 QUESTION: What is another name for unstable isotopes?
ANSWER: Radioactive Isotopes

19. D-200
QUESTION: What is the calculation of the ratio of parent to daughter isotopes called?
ANSWER: Radiometric Dating

20. D-300
QUESTION: This is the time it takes for one half of the unstable atom to decay into stable atoms.
ANSWER: Half-Life

21. D-400 QUESTION: Which isotope has a half-life of 5,730 years?
ANSWER: Carbon-14

22. D-500 QUESTION: This always happens at a measurable rate.
ANSWER: Radioactive decay

23. E-100
QUESTION: Which scientist introduced the concept of continental drift?
ANSWER: Alfred Wegener

24. E-200
QUESTION: A theory that all the Earth’s land masses were once part of a supercontinent.
ANSWER: Pangea

25. E-300
QUESTION: This type of boundary usually occurs on the ocean floor
ANSWER: Divergent Boundaries

26. E-400
QUESTION: What do you call the bending of rocks?
ANSWER: Folding

27. E-500
QUESTION: This is formed when limestone is put under extreme heat and pressure.
ANSWER: Marble

28. FINAL JEOPARDY
QUESTION: What are the three types of rocks in the rock cycle?
ANSWER: Metamorphic, Sedimentary, and Igneous