1. Science Jeopardy
The Earth System
Minerals
Rocks
Weathering & Soil
Erosion & Deposition
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Final Jeopardy

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3. The Earth System: 100
ANSWER: This is an organized group of parts that work together to form a whole.
QUESTION: What is a system?

4. The Earth System: 200
ANSWER: The four parts of the Earth system in alphabetical order.
QUESTION: What is the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?

5. The Earth System: 300
ANSWER: The three layers of the geosphere from densest to least dense.
QUESTION: What are the core, mantle and crust?

6. The Earth System: 400
ANSWER: The percentage of fresh water that makes up Earth’s hydrosphere.
QUESTION: What is 3 percent?

7. The Earth System: 500
ANSWER: Earth is considered a closed system because this cannot enter or leave.
QUESTION: What is matter?

8. Minerals: 100
ANSWER: The least reliable property for identifying a mineral.
QUESTION: What is color?

9. Minerals: 200 ANSWER: The mineral represented in the diagram.
QUESTION: What is Halite?
Chlorine
Sodium

10. Minerals: 300
ANSWER: The four characteristics of all minerals.
QUESTION: What is solid, formed in nature, definite chemical makeup, and crystal structure?

11. Minerals: 400
ANSWER: The 2 most common rock-forming mineral groups and the elements that make up each.
QUESTION: What are the silicates (Si & O) and the carbonates (C & O)?

12. Minerals: 500
ANSWER: The five methods of mineral formation within Earth and at the surface.
QUESTION: What is water evaporating, organisms form shells or bones, hot water cools, molten rocks cools, heat and pressure cause changes?

13. Rocks: 100
ANSWER: The three types of rocks.
QUESTION: What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?

14. Rocks: 200
ANSWER: The arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy parallel bands.
QUESTION: What is foliation?

15. Rocks: 300
ANSWER: The reason why the sedimentary rock limestone reacts with hydrochloric acid.
QUESTION: What is it contains the mineral calcite or carbonate minerals?

16. Rocks: 400
ANSWER: The type of rock formed at location A.
QUESTION: What is an intrusive igneous rock? B A

17. Rocks: 500
ANSWER: The type and name of a rock made of clay-sized particles Hint: remember a rock made of sand-sized particles is called sandstone 
QUESTION: What is sedimentary and shale?

18. Weathering & Soil: 100
ANSWER: Two natural processes of chemical weathering.
QUESTION: What is rusting and dissolving?

19. Weathering & Soil: 200
ANSWER: Four natural processes of mechanical weathering.
QUESTION: What are ice wedging, exfoliation, plant root growth, and abrasion?

20. Weathering & Soil: 300
ANSWER: The three factors that influence the rate of weathering of rocks.
QUESTION: What is surface area, composition, and climate?

21. Weathering & Soil: 400
ANSWER: Four soil properties that can be observed and measured.
QUESTION: What are texture, color, pore space, and chemistry?

22. Weathering & Soil: 500
ANSWER: The three main activities of humans that impact soil resources.
QUESTION: What are farming, mining, and construction and development?

23. Erosion & Deposition: 100
ANSWER: The four causes of erosion.
QUESTION: What are water, wind, ice, and gravity?

24. Erosion & Deposition: 200 B A
ANSWER: The two features identified by A and B in the picture.
QUESTION: What is a meander and an oxbow lake? B A

25. Erosion & Deposition: 300
ANSWER: Five examples of mass wasting.
QUESTION: What are mudflows, rockfalls, rockslides, landslides, slump, and creep.

26. Erosion & Deposition: 400
ANSWER: A basin that forms when the roof of a cave becomes so thin that it suddenly falls in.
QUESTION: What is a sinkhole?

27. QUESTION: What are lateral, ground, and end moraines and till?
Erosion & Deposition: 500
ANSWER: The 3 types of moraines and what they are made of.
QUESTION: What are lateral, ground, and end moraines and till?

28. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: of the 6 CRYSTAL groups that all minerals belong to.
QUESTION: What is cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorombic, monoclinic, and triclinic?

29. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: of the 10 minerals found on Moh’s hardness scale.
QUESTION: What are talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, feldspar, quartz, topaz, corundum, and diamond?

30. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The 4 metamorphic rocks that shale progressively turns into as it is exposed to higher levels of pressure and heat.
QUESTION: What are slate, phyllite, schist and gneiss?

31. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: One of the two processes by which glaciers move.
QUESTION: What are flowing and sliding?