1. Science Jeopardy
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Mountains & Volcanoes
Geosphere 1
Geosphere 2
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Final Jeopardy

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3. Plate Tectonics: 100
ANSWER: The 3 types of plate boundaries.
QUESTION:
What are convergent, divergent, transform plate boundaries?

4. Plate Tectonics: 200
ANSWER: Name 2 features that result from subduction boundaries.
QUESTION: What is island arcs, deep-ocean trenches, and coastal mountains.

5. Plate Tectonics: 300
ANSWER:
The 3 types of convergent plate boundaries.
QUESTION:
What are continental-continental collision, oceanic-oceanic subduction, and oceanic-continental subduction?

6. Plate Tectonics: 400
ANSWER: pieces of evidence for the theory of continental drift.
QUESTION: What is climate, fossils, and geology?

7. Plate Tectonics: 500
ANSWER: Name the Earth’s 6 layers in alphabetical order.
QUESTION: What is asthenosphere, crust, inner core, lithosphere, mantle, and outer core?

8. Earthquakes: 100
ANSWER: The 3 types of seismic waves in order of decreasing speed.
QUESTION: What is primary, secondary, and surface?

9. Earthquakes: 200
ANSWER: Name 2 structural features that can be used to make a building more earthquake-safe.
QUESTION: What are cross braces, moat, base isolator, shear walls, and shear core?

10. Earthquakes: 300
ANSWER: The instrument that constantly records ground movements and the number of them required to locate the epicenter of an earthquake.
QUESTION: What is a seismograph and 3?

11. Earthquakes: 400
ANSWER: The 3 types of faults and the plate boundary associated with each.
QUESTION: What is normal (divergent), reverse (convergent), and strike-slip (transform)?

12. Earthquakes: 500
ANSWER:
This is why the East Coast has a much lower earthquake risk than the West Coast.
QUESTION:
What is the West Coast is located along a convergent plate boundary?

13. Mountains & Volcanoes: 100
ANSWER: The 2 types of mountains and the plate boundary associated with each.
QUESTION: What is folded (convergent) and fault-block (divergent)?

14. Mountains & Volcanoes: 200
ANSWER: The 3 types of volcanoes.
QUESTION: What is shield, cinder cone, and composite?

15. Mountains & Volcanoes: 300
ANSWER: possible immediate effects of a volcanic eruption.
QUESTION: What are lava flows, volcanic ash, mudflows, pyroclastic flows, landslides, and steam explosions?

16. Mountains & Volcanoes: 400
ANSWER: The smallest rock fragments that erupt from a volcano.
QUESTION: What is ash?

17. Mountains & Volcanoes: 500
ANSWER: The huge crater formed by the collapse of a volcano when magma rapidly erupts from underneath it.
QUESTION: What is a caldera?

18. Geosphere 1: 100
ANSWER: The process in the asthenosphere that is responsible for plate movements.
QUESTION: What are convection currents?

19. Geosphere 1: 200
ANSWER: This is where hot rock rises from the mantle away from a plate boundary.
QUESTION: What is a hot spot?

20. Geosphere 1: 300
ANSWER: plates scrape past each other at this type of plate boundary.
QUESTION: What is a transform plate boundary?

21. Geosphere 1: 400
ANSWER: The name of the tectonic plate marked by the arrow.
QUESTION: What is the Juan de Fuca Plate?

22. Geosphere 1: 500
ANSWER: The 3 types of plate boundaries and what happens to the CRUST at each.
QUESTION: What are convergent (folded or destroyed), divergent (forms), and transform (nothing)?

23. Geosphere 2: 100
ANSWER: In fault-block mountain building, blocks of rock tilt along these.
QUESTION: What are normal faults?

24. Geosphere 2: 200
ANSWER: This determines the consistency of a volcano’s lava.
QUESTION: What is the silica content?

25. Geosphere 2: 300
ANSWER: A negative long-term effect of a volcanic eruption.
QUESTION: What is acid rain or lower global temperatures?

26. Geosphere 2: 400
ANSWER: Hot springs that form at spreading centers of the ocean.
QUESTION: What are deep-sea vents?

27. Geosphere 2: 500
ANSWER: The volcanic rock fragment shown in the picture.
QUESTION: What is a volcanic bomb?

28. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: Pangaea split into 2 sub-continents this many million years ago.
QUESTION: What is 180?