Transcript Science Jeopardy

MS 20 JEOPARDY
Plate
Tectonics
Minerals
Rocks
Marine
sediment
Seawater
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Final Jeopardy
Plate Tectonics - 100
• ANSWER: This hot belt surrounding
the pacific ocean is known for 80% of
the world’s volcanoes and
earthquakes
• QUESTION: What is the “ring of fire”
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Plate Tectonics - 200
• ANSWER: The fastest of earthquake
waves characterized by push-pull
motion
• QUESTION: What is a “P” wave?
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Plate Tectonics - 300
• ANSWER: A fault type caused by seafloor spreading under ocean ridges. It
produces horsts and grabens.
• QUESTION: What is a normal fault?
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Plate Tectonics - 400
• ANSWER: This zone is characterized
by compression and has shallow,
intermediate, and deep-focus
earthquakes.
• QUESTION: What is a subduction
zone?
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Plate Tectonics - 500
• ANSWER: This fault type is commonly
perpendicular to ocean ridges. One is
tearing California apart.
• QUESTION: What is a transform
fault?
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Minerals - 100
• ANSWER: It occurs naturally, is
crystalline and has a fairly definite
chemical formula
• QUESTION: What is a mineral?
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Minerals - 200
• ANSWER: This term refers to the
regular pattern of atoms within a mineral
• QUESTION: What is a crystal?
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Minerals - 300
• ANSWER: Quartz and feldspar
• QUESTION: What are the most
common minerals in California beach
sand? Or What are felsic minerals?
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Minerals - 400
• ANSWER: This term describes the
quality of light reflecting from the
surface of a mineral
• QUESTION: What is a luster?
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Minerals - 500
• ANSWER: The color of a powdered
mineral
• QUESTION: What is streak?
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Rocks - 100
• ANSWER: This item is an aggregate of
minerals
• QUESTION: What is a rock?
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Rocks - 200
• ANSWER: A rock formed by slow
cooling within Earth’s crust
• QUESTION: What is a
plutonic/intrusive rock?
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Rocks - 300
• ANSWER: A dark, heavy rock
containing abundant iron and
magnesium
• QUESTION: What is a mafic rock?
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Rocks - 400
• ANSWER: a rock formed at Earth’s
surface by erosion, transportation, and
deposition and lithification of sediment
• QUESTION: What is a sedimentary
rock?
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Rocks - 500
• ANSWER: A poorly sorted sedimentary
rock with angular fragments
• QUESTION: What is breccia?
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Marine Sediments - 100
• ANSWER: Lithogenous, biogenous,
hydrogenous and cosmogenous
• QUESTION: What 4 categories are
used to classify sediments by origin?
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Marine Sediments - 200
• ANSWER: The depth at which calcium
carbonate input equals dissolution
• QUESTION: What is the CCCD?
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Marine Sediments - 300
• ANSWER: A size distribution scale
ranging from boulders to cobbles to
pebbles to sand, silt and clay
• QUESTION: What is the Wentworth
scale?
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Marine Sediments - 400
• ANSWER: A marine sediment
containing at least 30% biological
material
• QUESTION: What is an ooze?
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Marine Sediments - 500
• ANSWER: A coccolithophore
• QUESTION: What is microscopic
plant which leaves behind calcium
carbonate fossils on the sea floor?
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Seawater - 100
• ANSWER: An atom with a + charge or a charge
• QUESTION: What is an ion?
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Seawater - 200
• ANSWER: Covalent bond
• QUESTION: What type of chemical
bonding occurs within a water
molecule?
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Seawater - 300
• ANSWER: 105 degrees
• QUESTION: What angle occurs between
hydrogen atoms in the water molecule?
Or: What is the angle away from an
epicenter at which shadow zones begin?
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Seawater - 400
• ANSWER: High surface tension,
adhesion, cohesion
• QUESTION: What properties make water
weird? (all due to the hydrogen bond)
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Seawater - 500
• ANSWER: 540 calories/gram/degree C
• QUESTION: What is water’s latent
heat of vaporization?
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FINAL GEOJEOPARDY
• ANSWER: Roy G Biv
• QUESTION: Who is the visible light
spectrum named after?
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