3. Jeopardy

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12. This is the thin and solid outermost layer of Earth

13. Crust

14. This layer is liquid metal

15. Outer Core

16. Outer part is solid & rigid, but becomes soft and easily deformed

17. Mantle

18. This layer is solid metal

19. Inner Core

20. This is the term used to describe the plastic-like part of the Earth

21. asthenosphere

22. This is the name for the supercontinent that existed 300 million years ago

23. Pangaea

24. This was the scientist who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift

25. Alfred Wegener

26. Africa & South America are the best example for this piece of evidence

27. Shape of continents fit together like puzzle

28. Name two of five early pieces of evidence for Continental Drift

29. 1. Mesosaurus fossil 2. Shape of cont. 3. Glacial deposits 4. Similar rock 5. Migration patterns

30. One recent piece of evidence for sea-floor spreading is age of rock near mid-ocean ridge. This is the other one.

31. Magnetic polarity bands

32. This is how many major lithospheric plates there are.

33. 7

34. Water seeping into the ground becomes heated by rock lying above magma. ______ is likely to occur when heated water under pressure rises back to surface through fractured rock.

35. Geysers

36. This is made up of the crust and upper portion of the mantle.

37. Lithosphere

38. The plates float on this.

39. Asthenosphere

40. Name the three geologic structures that form as a result of convergent boundaries

41. Ocean trenches, volcanoes, and mountains

42. The machine that measures the movements of an earthquake

43. Seismograph

44. The Richter scales measures the ___ of an earthquake.

45. Magnitude

46. These waves arrive second at a recording station.

47. S-waves

48. These waves can only travel through solids.

49. Surface waves or S- Waves

50. P-waves are also known as this.

51. Longitudinal waves

52. This is the exact point where an earthquake originates

53. Focus

54. Seismic waves slow down once they reach this layer of the Earth

55. Outer Core

56. These are the two ways that thermal energy is transferred through Earth

57. Conduction and Convection

58. When 2 lithospheric plates move apart, it is called this type of boundary

59. Divergent boundary

61. Name 2 items that form at a divergent boundary

62. Rift Valley, Ocean Ridge, Volcano, or New Sea Floor

63. This is why fossils are good indicators of relative age

64. They occur for well defined period of time

65. This is the process that scientists use to determine absolute age

66. Radioactive Dating

67. This is the principle that says rocks layers are laid down horizontally

68. Original Horizontality

69. Rocks that are on the bottom of a sequence are _______ than the rocks on the top of the sequence.

70. Older

71. Which layer is younger: A or B? Why?

72. B, because of intrusion

74. Name at least 3 famous phrases that Mrs. Witting always says in class

75. Let’s go Schomoes,Wa-Wa, I gotta laugh because otherwise I’ll cry,