1. Jeopardy Q 1 Q 2 Q 3 Q 4 Q 5 Q 6Q 16Q 11Q 21 Q 7Q 12Q 17Q 22 Q 8 Q 13 Q 18 Q 23 Q 9 Q 14 Q 19Q 24 Q 10 Q 15 Q 20Q 25 Final Jeopardy Plate Boundaries Earth’s Layers Sea-Floor Spreading WeatheringTrivia

2. Question 1 The outer layer of the earth.

3. Answer 1 What is – the crust ?

4. Question 2 The center of the earth.

5. Answer 2 What is – the core ?

6. Question 3 Two metals which make up the core.

7. Answer 3 What is – nickel & iron ?

8. Question 4 The thickest layer of the earth.

9. Answer 4 What is – the mantle ?

10. Question 5 The part of the core which is solid due to pressure.

11. Answer 5 What is – the inner core ?

12. Question 6 The boundary where two plates slide past one another.

13. Answer 6 What is – a Transform boundary ?

14. Question 7 Formed from the subduction lithosphere plates.

15. Answer 7 What is – a trench?

16. Question 8 These are features of divergent boundaries.

17. Answer 8 What is – Rift valleys, Mid- Ocean Ridges, and Fissure volcanoes ?

18. Question 9 Formed from the convergent of two continental plates.

19. Answer 9 What are– folded mountains ?

20. Question 10 The process of a more dense lithosphere plate going under a less dense plate.

21. Answer 10 What is – Subduction ?

22. Question 11 Where sea-floor spreading takes place.

23. Answer 11 What are – divergent boundaries ?

24. Question 12 These are the result of sea-floor spreading.

25. Answer 12 What are – Mid- Ocean Ridges ?

26. Question 13 These are the evidence for sea-floor spreading.

27. Answer 13 What are – Rock pillows, magnetic strips, and drilling samples?

28. Question 14 What drilling samples told about the age of the ocean floor.

29. Answer 14 What is – the rocks closer to the ridges are younger than the rocks farther away from the ridges ?

30. Question 15 The reason people didn’t believe Alfred Wegener.

31. Answer 15 What is – Wegener couldn’t explain how the continents moved?

32. Question 16 The deposit of sediment that has been weathered and eroded..

33. Answer 16 What is – deposition ?

34. Question 17 Process of moving sediment from one place to another.

35. Answer 17 What is– erosion ?

36. Question 18 The process of breaking down rocks and soil.

37. Answer 18 What is–weathering?

38. Question 19 Frost Wedging, animal burrows, exfoliation, and abrasions.

39. Answer 19 What are – types of mechanical weathering ?

40. Question 20 Water dissolving pavement to make potholes and lichens on rocks and trees.

41. Answer 20 What are – examples of chemical weathering ?

42. Question 21 Technology that helped discover mid-ocean ridges and sea-floor spreading.

43. Answer 21 What is – a sonar ?

44. Question 22 The name of the “super-continent”.

45. Answer 22 What is – pangaea ?

46. Question 23 Where convection currents take place.

47. Answer 23 What is – the asthenosphere ?

48. Question 24 The upper mantle and all of the crust.

49. Answer 24 What is – the lithosphere ?

50. Question 25 The power behind plate tectonics.

51. Answer 25 What are – convection currents ?

52. Final Jeopardy The theory that states that our continents are slowly moving.

53. Final Jeopardy Answer What is –the Theory of Plate Tectonics?