2. THIS IS
JEOPARDY

3. With
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Mrs. Sosa

4. Theory of Plate Tectonics
Earth’s Interior
Drifting Continents
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Convection Currents
More Plate Tectonics
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5. This is the “ology” that means the study of planet Earth.

6. What is geology?
A 100

7. These are the two forces that shape Earth’s landforms.

8. What are constructive and destructive?

9. Rift valleys occur at these type of boundaries.

10. What are divergent boundaries?

11. These are the three main layers that make up the Earth’s interior.

12. What are the crust, the mantle, and the core?

13. Heat from the Earth’s interior is transferred to its crust by which type of current in the mantle?

14. What is convection current?

15. This is the movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.

16. What is heat transfer?
B 100

17. These are the three types of heat transfer.
B 200

18. What are radiation, conduction, and convection?
B 200

19. This is an example of radiation.
B 300

20. What is heat from the sun or heat from a fire?
B 300

21. This is an example of conduction.
B 400

22. What is a spoon heating up in a pot of soup?
B 400

23. This is an example of convection.
B 500

24. What is the movement of soup in a heating pot
What is the movement of soup in a heating pot? (Heat moves up the middle, cools, and then moves down the inside edge of the pot.)
B 500

25. This is the name for the supercontinent of all lands joined together.

26. What is Pangea?
C 100

27. This is the name of the scientist who developed the Theory of Continental Drift.

28. Who is Alfred Wegener?
C 200

29. Any trace of an ancient organism preserved in rock is called this.

30. What is a fossil?
C 300

31. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
Place A Wager
C 400

32. These are three areas of evidence that support the Theory of Continental Drift.

33. Landforms Fossil Distribution Climate
What are:
Landforms Fossil Distribution Climate
C 400

34. This is the scientific term for an educated guess.

35. What is a hypothesis?
C 500

36. This is how plates split apart.
D 100

37. What are divergent boundaries?

38. This is the crust that makes up the oceans.
D 200

39. What is oceanic crust?
D 200

40. This is the direction plates move in a convergent boundary.

41. What is towards each other?

42. Normal faults are the result of this type of stress.
D 400

43. What is tension stress (rock pull apart)?
D 400

44. This is where most major geologic events occur.
D 500

45. What are plate boundaries?

46. This is the name for the broken sections of the lithosphere.

47. What are plates?
E 100

48. These are the lines where different pieces of the lithosphere meet.

49. What are plate boundaries?

50. This is a deep valley that forms when two plates pull apart.

51. What is a rift valley?
E 300

52. This is a break in the Earth’s crust where rocks have slipped past each other.

53. What is a fault?
E 400

54. This is the boundary caused by plates moving apart.

55. What is a divergent boundary?

56. This is the boundary caused by plates moving together, or “colliding”.
F 100

57. What is a convergent boundary?
F 100

58. This is the boundary caused by plates moving past each other in opposite directions.
F 200

59. What is a transform boundary?

60. As the plates collide, this determines which plate comes out on top.
F 300

61. What is density?
F 300

62. This is the word for one plate moving under another.

63. What is subduction?
F 400

64. This landform is created when two continental plates collide.

65. What is the formation of mountain ranges?

66. The Final Jeopardy Category is:
“Where will we be in another million years?”
Please record your wager.
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67. This is how fast plates move.
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68. What is one to ten centimeters per year?
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69. What is one to ten centimeters per year?
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