Geology Chapter 1 Jeopardy

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$100

The Earth’s thinnest layer.

$100 What is…

the Crust?

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This layer is made of Granite and Basalt

$200 What is…

the Crust?

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This layer is made mostly of melted iron.

$300 What is…

Outer Core

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This layer causes Earth’s magnetic field because it spins.

$400 What is…

Inner Core.

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Convection currents take place here.

$500 What is…

Mantle (Asthenosphere) &

Outer Core

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Heat transferred through the empty space is called…

$100 What is…

Radiation

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Heat transferred through fluid is called…

$200 What is…

Convection

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Heat transferred through solids is called…

$300 What is…

Conduction

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The sun heating the Earth is an example of….

$400 What is…

Radiation

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The Earth’s convection currents take place in the…

$500 What is…

Asthenosphere & Outer Core

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Which of the following is NOT evidence of sea floor spreading.

Drilling samples

C

A

B

D

Fossils

Molten Material

Magnetic Stripes

$100 What is…

B Fossils

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Rocks the form when molten material cools and hardens quickly

in water are called…(Evidence of Sea-Floor Spreading)

$200 What is…

Pillow Lava

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These show that the magnetic poles of the Earth have reversed.

$300 What is…

Magnetic Stripes on the ocean floor

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The process by which the ocean crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle

$400 What is…

Subduction

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The longest chain of mountains in the world is the…

$500 What is…

Mid-Ocean Ridge

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The man responsible for the theory of continental drift

$100 What is…

Alfred Wegener

$200 Which of the following is NOT evidence of continental drift…

Climate

Landforms

C

A

B

D

Global Warming

Fossils

$200 What is…

B Global Warming

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The name of the supercontinent theorized by Wegener

$300 What is…

Pangaea.

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The main reason Wegener’s theory was not accepted

$400 What is…

He could not explain the force that made the continents move.

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Continental drift is caused by…

$500 What is…

Convection currents.

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A scientist who studies the forces that make and shape

planet Earth.

$100 What is…

Geologist

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Used to determine the interior structure of the Earth

$200 What is…

Seismic Waves

$300 List the layers of the Earth from

outermost to inner most

$300 What is…

Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core

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Where the crust is the thickest

$400 What is…

Under the mountains

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A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle

and the crust

$500 What is…

Lithosphere

Final Jeopardy

Explain how a convection current

works