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Jeopardy
Volcanoes,
Mountains, and
Earthquakes,
Oh My!
Wegener,
What?
Old, Dead
Stuff in the
Earth
Hodge
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What’s On
Your Plate?
Final Jeopardy
1 - $100
This move centimeters each year. About as fast
as your fingernails grow.
What are tectonic (lithospheric) plates?
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The type of boundary shown.
What is a divergent boundary?
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This causes the tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents in the
asthenosphere?
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The three ways plates can move.
What is convergent, divergent, and transform.
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This is created along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
where two oceanic plates are diverging.
What is new ocean floor?
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These are often formed when two continental
plates collide.
What are mountains?
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This causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and
mountain building.
What is tectonic plate movement?
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Convergent and transform boundaries
(sometimes divergent, too) can produce this
geological event.
What are earthquakes?
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This plate boundary neither creates nor destroys
crust.
What is a transform boundary?
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What evidence do we use to determine the
location of tectonic plate boundaries?
What is the location of earthquakes, volcanoes,
and mountains?
3 - $100
The name of Alfred Wegener’s theory.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
3 - $200
Alfred Wegener used the coastlines of these two
continents to spark his theory.
What is the eastern coast of South America and
the western coast of Africa?
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The missing piece to continental drift that Alfred
Wegener could not explain.
What is the force that caused the continents to
move? *
(We know today that the convection currents in
the mantle cause this movement. Lava lamp!)
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The location of the Mesosaurus fossil was
important to Alfred Wegener’s theory because of
this.
What is the fact that it was a freshwater
creature separated today by the Atlantic Ocean
and found where Africa and S. America would
have joined?
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The presence of coal in Northern Asia and
Canada along with Antarctica supports the
Theory of Continental Drift because of this.
What is coal is found in areas of much plant
growth (usually jungles)?
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The oldest rock layer is located here.
What is the bottom layer?
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Fossils are mainly found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
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Fossils in layer 4 are ______
compared to layer 3.
What is younger?
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Which parts of an organism are commonly
fossilized?
What are hard parts? (teeth, bones)
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Clues we gather from fossils about Earth’s past.
What are climate changes, types of organisms,
and environmental conditions?
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The following picture supports which scientific
law?
What is the Law of Superposition?
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Earth’s strongest earthquakes occur along this
type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
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This occurs when one plate slides beneath
another plate.
What is a subduction zone?
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The fossils found on a Canadian mountain
provide this clue.
What is..
– the rock was formed underwater?
– the environment has changed?
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Volcanic islands, such as Japan, are formed
when these types of plates converge.
What are both oceanic?
Final Jeopardy
The rock cycle and tectonic action are related in
this/these ways.
What is…
– Lava from volcanoes = igneous rock
– Subduction zones = pressure and heat (metamorphic
or igneous.
– Divergent boundaries = new crust (rock)
Name that Science Word!!
convergent boundary
sedimentary rock
Theory of Continental
Drift
divergent boundary
transform boundary
subduction zone