2. Let's Play "Plate Tectonics Jeopardy"
Remember each question will be in the form of an answer and you must respond with a question.
GOOD LUCK
Here are the categories

4. Earth’s Interior

5. Convection Currents

6. Continental Drift

7. The Sea-Floor

8. Theory of Plate Tectonics

9. Hodge Podge

10. Theory of Plate Tectonics
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Continental Drift
The Sea- Floor
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11. The Continental Crust consists mainly of this rock.
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12. What is Granite?
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13. The scientists who study the forces that make up and shape the Earth.
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14. Who are geologists?
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15. The part of the mantle that is solid rock, but can flow like a liquid.
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16. What is the asthenosphere?
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17. The parts of the Earth that make up the lithosphere.
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18. What are the crust and the upper mantle?
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19. The layers of the Earth from the outermost layer the inner most.
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20. What are the crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
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21. The transfer of energy through empty space.
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22. What is radiation?
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23. The transfer of heat by the movement of a heated fluid.
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24. What is convection?
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25. In the convection current of a pan of soup, the cooler, denser fluid does this.
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26. What sinks to the bottom?
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27. This happens to the density of a fluid when it becomes hotter.
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28. What is a decrease in density?
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29. This describes how convection currents occur in the mantle.
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30. The rock in the lower mantle is heated by the core below
The rock in the lower mantle is heated by the core below. As it is heated the rock becomes less dense and rises through the asthenosphere. As the rock rises it cools and becomes more dense. When the rock becomes dense enough it sinks back through the asthenosphere.
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31. He proposed the Theory of Continental Drift.
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32. Who is Alfred Wegener?
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33. The 3 types of evidence Wegener used to support his theory.
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34. What are fossils, rocks, landforms (continents’ shapes, mountain ranges, etc.), climate?
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35. The name of the supercontinent that began to break apart about 250 million years ago.
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36. What is Pangaea?
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37. Daily Double

38. Scientists rejected Wegener’s theory because he could not provide this.
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39. How the continents move?
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40. This climate evidence supported the Theory of Continental Drift.
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41. What is Glossopteris (tropical fern fossils) found in Iceland showing that Iceland must have been closer to the equator or Glacier marks found in Africa indicating that Africa must have been closer to the poles?
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42. A long chain of underwater mountains that forms along areas of seafloor spreading.
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43. What is the mid-ocean ridge?
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44. The process that continually adds new material to ocean floor.
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45. What is sea floor spreading?
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46. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath another plate into the astheosphere.
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47. What is subduction?.
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48. This is a description of seafloor spreading.
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49. As 2 plates are forced apart by convection currents in the asthenosphere, molten rock rises through a crack and forms a ridge of volcanic mountains. As more molten rock rises the old ocean floor is pushed away. The further the seafloor is from the mid-ocean ridge, the cooler and denser it becomes. Eventually the seafloor becomes dense enough to plunge back into the mantle forming a deep ocean trench.
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50. Two types of evidence for seafloor spreading.
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51. What is drilling samples (shows oldest rocks are found farthest from mid-ocean ridge), and magnetic stripes (pattern is the same on both sides of the ridge)?
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52. A break in Earth’s crust where rocks have slipped past each other.
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53. What is a fault?
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54. The separate sections (pieces) of the Earth’s lithosphere.
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55. What are tectonic plates?
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56. A plate boundary where 2 plates slip past each other, while moving parallel to the plate boundary.
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57. What is a transform plate boundary?
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58. A valley that forms on land along a divergent plate boundary.
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59. What is a rift valley?
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60. These are the 3 types of plate boundaries.
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61. What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
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62. This is the difference between the inner and outer core.
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63. What is a solid inner core and a liquid outer core?
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64. The oldest oceanic crust is found here.
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65. What is furthest away from the ocean ridge or close to the trench?
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66. This is Wegener’s theory of continental drift.
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67. What is the theory that states that all continents were once joined as one landmass which slowly moved apart?
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68. This produces the Earth’s magnetic field?
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69. What forms when the liquid outer core forces the solid inner core to spin?
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70. These are 3 different types of convergent plate boundaries.
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71. What are oceanic/oceanic, oceanic/continental, continental/continental?
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72. Final Game Questions
Earth’s Plates

73. The name of the plates that have created New Zealand what kind of boundary it is.

74. What are the Pacific & Indo-Australian plates at a convergent boundary

75. And the winner is…..