Transcript Jeopardy - Effingham County Schools

Jeopardy
Earthquakes Boundaries
Faults/
Stresses
Plate
Tectonics and
Vocabulary
Continental
Drift
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Final Jeopardy
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Where do the strongest earthquakes usually
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Near transform boundaries
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The last and most dangerous waves to arrive are
the
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Surface waves
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Which wave pushes rock side to side
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S wave
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What is the difference between an earthquake’s
epicenter and its focus
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The focus is inside the earth and the epicenter is
on the surface
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The cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking
is called
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A convection current
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Two plates moving apart are what type of
boundary
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divergent
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Type of boundary where two tectonic plates
push together, toward each other
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Convergent
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A collision between two pieces of continental
crust at a converging boundary produces a
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Mountain range
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What is the process in which the ocean floor
sinks under a deep ocean trench and back into
the mantle
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Subduction
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A rrift valley forms at what type of boundary
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divergent
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What type of stress give you a convergent
boundary
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compression
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What type of stress give you a transform
boundary
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shearing
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What type of stress give you a divergent
boundary
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tension
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What type of fault do you have at a divergent
boundary
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Normal fault
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The San Andreas Fault occurs at a transform
boundary, what kind of fault is it
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Strike-slip fault
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The Theory of …… states that pieces of Earth’s
lithosphere are in constant, slow motion
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Theory of Plate Tectonics
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Most earthquakes occur along or near the edges
of the Earth’s
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Tectonic plates
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The youngest rock in the ocean floor are located
at the mid-ocean …….
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Ridge
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The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists
of the crust and the rigid upper part of the
mantle
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Lithosphere
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The vibrations caused by an earthquake
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Seismic waves
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What is the name of the supercontinent that
existed millions of years ago
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Pangea
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According to Wegener’s hypothesis of
continental drift the continents were
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Joined together in a single landmass
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Using data from seismic waves, geologists have
learned that Earth’s interior is made of of several
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Layers
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To support his hypothesis, Wegener provided
evidence from ……, traces of ancient organisms
preserved in rock
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fossils
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The lithosphere is broken into sections known as
……, which float on top of the athensophere
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plates
Final Jeopardy
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What is the correct order (starting from the
surface) of the Earth’s layers
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Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core