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3. Jeopardy 200 400 600 800 1000 Final Jeopardy Earth's Interior
Convection and the Mantle
Drifting Continents
Sea-Floor Spreading
The Theory of Plate Tectonics
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4. Earth's Interior for 200
Continental crust consists mainly of the rock ______________.
What is granite?
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5. Earth's Interior for 400
Scientists who study the forces that make and shape the planet Earth are called _____________________
What are geologists?
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6. What is the asthenosphere?
Earth's Interior for 600
The _________________ is the part of the mantle that can bend like plastic.
What is the asthenosphere?
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7. Earth's Interior for 800 What is the crust? Back to Jeopardy
The lithosphere includes all of the _____________ and part of the mantle.
What is the crust?
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8. What are inner core, outer
Earth's Interior for 1000
Name each of the layers of the Earth’s interior from innermost layer to outermost layer.
What are inner core, outer
core, mantle, and crust?
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9. Convection and the Mantle for 200
In the convection, the cooler, denser fluid ______ to the bottom.
What is sinks?
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10. Convection and the Mantle for 400
A deep valley where plates move apart is called a _________________.
What is a divergent boundary?
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11. Convection and the Mantle for 600
Heat transfer by the movement of a heated fluid is called _____________.
What is convection?
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12. Convection and the Mantle for 800
________________ is a measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance.
What is density?
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13. Convection and the Mantle for 1000
The San Andreas Fault is a famous example of this type of plate boundary .
What is a transform plate boundary?
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14. Drifting Continents for 200
This is who first proposed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
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15. Drifting Continents for 400
The supercontinent that began to break apart a long time ago is called ___________.
What is Pangaea?
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16. Drifting Continents for 600
Oceanic crust is consumed and returns to the Earth’s mantle during this process at some convergent plate boundaries. .
What is subduction?
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17. Drifting Continents for 800
Scientists rejected Wegener’s theory because he could not explain what force pushes or pulls __________________.
What are continents?
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18. Drifting Continents for 1000
The plates of the lithosphere move on the ________, which is very hot and semiliquid.
What is the asthenosphere?
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19. Sea-Floor Spreading for 200
This is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath trenches.
What is subduction?
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20. Sea-Floor Spreading for 400
This is what erupts through the valley of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is molten material or magma?
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21. Sea-Floor Spreading for 600
The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is _____________________.
What is sea-floor spreading?
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22. Sea-Floor Spreading for 800
As oceanic crust moves away from the ___________________, it cools and becomes more dense.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
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23. Sea-Floor Spreading for 1000
A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks towards the mantle.
Trench or Deep Ocean Trench
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24. The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 200
A break in Earth’s crust where rocks have slipped past each other is called a ______________.
What is a fault?
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25. The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 400
Earth’s lithosphere is broken into separate sections called __________.
What are plates?
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26. The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 600
A _____________ boundary is a place where two plates slip past each other.
What is transform?
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27. The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 800
A rift valley forms along a __________ boundary on land.
What is divergent?
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28. The Theory of Plate Tectonics for 1000
The movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another. This is believed to cause Earth’s plates to move.
What are convection currents
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29. Capture the Chapter for 200
This is where the lithosphere is located on a model of the Earth’s interior.
What is in the mantle, just below the crust?
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30. Capture the Chapter for 400
This is the major difference between the inner core and the outer core.
What is the inner core is solid and the outer core is molten?
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31. Capture the Chapter for 600
If a divergent boundary occurred on land, this is the name of the land form it would eventually create.
What is a rift valley?
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32. Capture the Chapter for 800
These are the three different types of convergent boundaries that could occur on Earth’s surface.
What are oceanic-oceanic, oceanic-
continental, and continental-continental?
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33. Capture the Chapter for 1000
The type of rocks found in continental crust and oceanic. Which is why oceanic crust sinks beneath continental crust.
What is oceanic crust is made of basalt and continental crust is
made up of granite? Basalt is more dense than granite.
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38. Final Jeopardy What is a well-tested concept that explains
This is the definition for a scientific theory.
What is a well-tested concept that explains
a wide range of observations?
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