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JeopardyRocks and Minerals
PaleontologyEarth’s Layers
and Heat Transfer
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Final Jeopardy
$400 Question from rocks and minerals
What are the FIVE processes involved in sedimentary rock formation?
$500 Answer from rocks and minerals
Naturally occurringSolidInorganicDefinite chemical compositionCrystal structure
$100 Question from paleontology & ecology
The Law of Superposition if often used to help understand Earth’s history. This law helps scientists determine the ____________ age of rocks.
$200 Question from paleontology & ecology
The fossil record shows that life on Earth has changed over time. For example, paleontologists have found that older rocks contain fossils of ____________ organisms.
$300 Question from paleontology
Trilobites are a form of life which existed during limited periods of geologic time. Therefore, they are used as guides to the relative age of the rocks in which they are preserved. This makes trilobites __________.
$400 Question from paleontology & ecology
How do scientists know that dinosaurs and horses did not exist in the same geologic era?
$400 Answer from paleontology & ecology
Fossils of horses and dinosaurs were not found in the same rock layer.
$500 Question from paleontology & ecology
What evidence did scientists use to determine where one period of geologic time ended and the next one began?
$100 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer
The crust is composed of __________ and ___________.
$300 Answer from earth’s layers and heat transfer
When the molten material in the mantle heats up decreasing its density and rising to the surface as less dense material sinks.
$400 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer
This layer is located above the asthenosphere and is composed of the upper mantle and the crust.
$500 Question from earth’s layers and heat transfer
If the temperature of the Earth’s layers increases by about 100 degrees Fahrenheit (◦F) for every 1 kilometer from the surface and you are estimating the temperature at a depth of 2,000 kilometers below the surface, how hot would it be at which layer of Earth’s interior?
$200 Question from W.E.D.S
One of the soil horizons is made up of clay and other particles but little humus. What is this layer called?
$500 Question from W.E.D.S
A geologist wants to study the rate of weathering in different climates. He leaves identical pieces of limestone in the following locations – the Amazon rainforest, North Pole, Sahara desert and the South Pole. Where will the rock weather the most?
$100 Question from this and that
A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate it is used is called a ___________ resource.
$200 Question from this and that
Beginning in the late 1800’s farmers in the Great Plains region of the U.S. plowed the land to increase the amount of space available for farming. To do this, the grass was removed and bare soil was exposed. What affect did plowing have on the soil after several years of drought?
$200 Answer from this and that
Plowing and exposing the soil caused it to turn to dust and blow away.
$300 Question from this and that
Hydroelectric power and wind energy are powered by what major source of energy?
$400 Question from this and that
What is the name of the supercontinent that Alfred Wegener thought our continents broke apart from called?
$500 Question from this and that
The process involving magma leaking into the ocean at a mid-ocean ridge creating new oceanic crust is called ________.