1. JEOPARDY
Mrs. Beyenhof’s
6th Grade Science
Chapter 8 Plate Tectonics

2. THE RULES ALEX is the Judge, all decisions are final.
Everyone will actively participate.
Each team will decide on a “batting order”. Please write it down.
No penalties for wrong answers, so try.
Each team will be rewarded with points.
Be positive, encourage your teammates.
ALEX is the Judge, all decisions are final.

3. Jeopardy Round Categories are:

4. Plate Tectonics

5. Supercontinent

6. Plate Boundaries

7. Metamorphic Rocks

8. Moving Plates

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10. This type of landform is formed by a mantle plume hot spot.
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This type of landform is formed by a mantle plume hot spot.
What is an island chain?

11. Long chains of undersea mountains are known as _______.
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Long chains of undersea mountains are known as _______.
What are mid-ocean ridges?

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________ is the process by which new ocean floor is created and causes the continents to “drift”.
What is sea-floor spreading?

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This scientist’s work inspired a tremendous surge in scientific progress on the topic of plate tectonics?
Who is Hess?

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Convection cells in the ______ are responsible for the movement of tectonic plates.
What is Lower Mantle?

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______ is the name given to the ancient supercontinent composed of earlier forms of today’s continents.
What is Pangaea?

16. _____ was the scientist who put forth the idea of continental drift.
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_____ was the scientist who put forth the idea of continental drift.
Who is Wegener?

17. What is continental drift?
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The idea that continents move slowly on Earth’s surface is known as ____________________.
What is continental drift?

18. What are lithospheric plates?
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Large pieces of Earth’s crust that move over the aesthenosphere are known as __________________.
What are lithospheric plates?

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Wegener’s evidence for continental drift included the matching of these three things.
What are coal beds, mountain ranges, and plant fossils?

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The best way to detect transform faults is by the _____ they cause.
What are earthquakes?

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Older lithospheric plates are cooler plates, and therefore _____ than young plates.
What is denser?

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A rising mantle plume in the mantle may divide the lithosphere above and form a ______________.
What is mid-ocean ridge?

23. $800 One of the main pieces of evidence for sea-floor spreading is:
What are magnetic patterns?

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The valleys that form in the ocean floor when two oceanic plates collide are called…
What are trenches?

25. $200 Metamorphic rocks are formed from:
What are increasing heat and pressure?

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A metamorphic rock is formed when heat and pressure change _____, _____, and _____ rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?

27. $600 Continental crust is primarily made of this type of rock.
What is granite?

28. $800 Oceanic crust is primarily made of this type of rock.
What is basalt?

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When limestone is squeezed in a convergent plate boundary this forms.
What is marble?

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The sinking of one lithospheric plate under another lithospheric plate is known as __________.
What is subduction?

31. $400 Mountain ranges are most often formed at ________ boundaries.
What is convergent?

32. $600 Divergent boundaries found on land are known as:
What are rift valleys?

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________ boundaries are found over the rising part of a lower mantle convection cell.
What are divergent?

34. Old crust is consumed at a __________ plate boundary?
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Old crust is consumed at a __________ plate boundary?
What is convergent?

35. Thank You for
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