Transcript Earth`s Changing Surface Game

This is Jeopardy
Earth’s Changing Surface
Rules
 Always
answer in the form of a
question
 5 points deducted for wrong
answer
Landforms
Vocab
Rivers
Rocks
Glaciers
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Vocab for 10
The grinding of one rock by
another.
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Vocab - for 10
What is abrasion?
Vocab - for 20
The process in which water,
wind, or ice build up the earth’s
surface by dropping sediment in
new locations.
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Vocab - for 20
What is deposition?
Vocab - for 30
The process in which gravity,
water, ice, and wind move
sediment from one place to
another on the earth’s surface.
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Vocab - for 30
What is erosion?
Vocab - for 40
The breaking down of rocks
into smaller pieces.
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Vocab - for 40
What is weathering?
Vocab - for 50
Materials, such as sand, silt,
soil, and rocks, that have
been carried along and
deposited by water, wind, or
ice.
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Vocab - for 50
What is sediment?
Rivers- for 10
The part of the river formed
as a result of deposition.
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Rivers- for 10
What is a delta?
Rivers- for 20
The bottom of a river.
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Rivers- for 20
What is the riverbed?
Rivers- for 30
Where a river begins.
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Rivers - for 30
What is the source?
Rivers- for 40
Three factors that affect how
moving water erodes and
deposits sediment.
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Rivers- for 40
What are the amount of water, speed of
water, and type of sediment?
Rivers- for 50
The sides of a river.
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Rivers- for 50
What is riverbank?
Rocks- for 10
Sedimentary, Igneous, and
Metamorphic
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Rocks - for 10
What are three the main
categories of rocks.
Rocks - for 20
Weathering
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Rocks - for 20
What is the breaking down of
rocks?
Rocks - for 30
Abrasion.
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Rocks- for 30
What is the grinding down of one rock
by another?
Rocks - for 40
Pebbles, rock chips, sand,
boulders.
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Rocks - for 40
What is sediment?
Rocks - for 50
Pumice, sandstone, limestone,
slate, and quartzite.
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Rocks - for 50
What is the order in which these
rocks breakdown?
quartzite
pumice
slate
limestone
sandstone
Glaciers – for 10
A large mass of moving ice.
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Glaciers - for 10
What is a glacier?
Glaciers - for 20
Large rocks left behind moving
glaciers. These rocks do not
match other rocks in the area.
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Glaciers - for 20
What are erratics?
Glaciers - for 30
Scratch lines, erratics, and
moraines.
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Glaciers - for 30
What are changes to the earth’s
surface caused by moving glaciers.
Glaciers - for 40
Piles of unsorted sediment left
behind moving glaciers.
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Glaciers - for 40
What are moraines?
Glaciers - for 50
2.5 to 5 centimeters
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Glaciers- for 50
What is the distance a
glacier usually moves in a
day?
Landforms- for 10
A body of flowing water that
empties into an ocean, valley,
lake or another river.
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Landforms- for 10
What is a river?
Landforms- for 20
The low land that runs between
mountains or hills.
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Landforms- for 20
What is a valley?
Landforms - for 30
A part of the earth’s crust that
has been raised at least 985
above the surrounding lowlands.
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Landforms - for 30
What is a mountain?
Landforms- for 40
A deep valley with steep sides
shaped by water.
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Landforms- for 40
What is a canyon?
Landforms- for 50
A hill or ridge of loose sand formed
by the wind.
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Landforms- for 50
What is a sand dune?