1. Weathering and Erosion Review

2. Jeopardy Round 1 The Changing Earth WED? Erosion More WED?
Double Jeopardy
Jeopardy Round 1
The Changing Earth
WED?
Erosion
More WED?
Miscellaneous
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3. The Changing Earth $100 Answer:
A predictable series of events that occurs when nothing but bare rock is exposed to the environment.
A type of succession.
What is primary succession?

4. The Changing Earth $200 Answer:
This is the process of breaking rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?

5. The Changing Earth $300 Answer:
During the process of weathering, rock is broken into smaller pieces called this.
What is sediment?

6. The Changing Earth $400 Answer:
This is the process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?

7. The Changing Earth $500 Answer:
This is the process of dropping sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?

8. WED? $100
Answer:
Water, wind, ice, and plant roots are all agents of this.
What is weathering?

9. WED? $200
Answer:
Water, wind, glaciers, and gravity are all agents of this.
What is erosion?

10. WED? $300
Answer:
Rain washing away soil from a hillside is an example of this. (WED?)
What is erosion?

11. More Layers $400 Answer: What is deposition?
Waves dropping sand on the beach is an example of this. (WED?)

12. More Layers $500
Answer:
Acid rain dissolving the surface of rocks is an example of this. (WED?)
What is chemical weathering?

13. Erosion $100 Answer: What are mechanical and chemical weathering?
These two types of weathering are making the Grand Canyon even grander every day.
What are mechanical and chemical weathering?

14. Erosion $200
Answer:
This is the movement of wet soil downhill due to gravity.
What are mudslides?

15. Erosion $300
Answer:
This is the downhill movement of dry soil due to gravity.
What are landslides?

16. Erosion $400
Answer:
These can be created over long periods of time by water seeping into cracks of limestone rock.
What are caves or caverns?

17. Erosion $500
Answer:
These moving rivers of ice can cut mountains in half and move huge blocks of rock as they slowly inch their way over ground.
What are glaciers?

18. More WED? $100
Answer:
Water getting into cracks of rocks, freezing, and breaking the rocks apart is an example of this. (WED?)
What is weathering?

19. More WED?
$200
Answer:
Wind blowing sand from one location to another is an example of this. (WED?)
What is erosion?

20. More WED? $300
Answer:
Wind blasting sand at rock and carving out arches is an example of this. (WED?)
What is weathering?

21. More WED? $400
Answer:
Wind dropping sand to form sand dunes is an example of this. (WED?)
What is deposition?

22. More WED? $500 What is a delta? Answer:
A triangular shaped formation of land that occurs where river and streams empty into a large body of water like a lake or ocean. (WED?)

23. Miscellaneous $100 Answer:
This type of cat. Event creates an environment just right for the spread of wildfires.
What is a drought?

24. Miscellaneous $200 Answer:
This cat. event is a result of an earthquake that occurs on the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami?

25. Miscellaneous $300 Answer:
This cat. event develops over the ocean and can hit a land mass with winds that are very destructive.
What is a hurricane?

26. Miscellaneous $400 Answer:
This type of mild acid is the creator of majestic cave and cavern formations called speliothems.
What is carbonic acid?

27. Miscellaneous $500 Answer:
What name is given to a land mass that collects all of the surface water in the area.
What is a watershed?

28. Double Jeopardy! (7th Grade Review)
Final Jeopardy
Double Jeopardy! (7th Grade Review)
Succession
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
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29. Succession
$200
Answer:
This type of succession occurs when bare soil is present after a natural or man made disaster occurs.
What is secondary succession?

30. Succession $400 What are pioneer species? Answer:
Lichens are the best examples of these kinds of organisms that occur during primary succession.
What are pioneer species?

31. Succession $600
Answer:
The final stage of succession that occurs after many years of gradual changes.
What is a climax forest?

32. Succession $800
Answer:
What must occur in a climax forest in order for primary or secondary succession to begin again.?
What is a man made or natural disaster or disturbance?

33. Succession $1000
Answer:
Which type(s) of succession occurred in the area after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens?
What are both primary (bare rock) and secondary (bare soil) succession would have occurred?

34. W, E, D $200 Answer: What is freeze/thaw or ice wedging?
A type of mechanical weathering that occurs when water in rock cracks freezes.

35. W, E, D $400
Answer:
Name two things that determine the rate of weathering of rock.
What are type of rock, type of climate, and amount of time?

36. W,E,D $600 Answer: Name three agents of mechanical weathering.
What are water, ice, gravity, wind, pressure, animals, plants?
Answer:
Name three agents of mechanical weathering.

37. W, E,D $800
Answer:
This agent of chemical weathering can dissolve limestone and is usually the causative agent of cave and cavern formation. Produced when rain falls through polluted skies.
What is acid rain?

38. W, E, D $1000
Answer:
This form of chemical weathering occurs when water and oxygen react with certain metals.
What is rusting?

39. Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Final Jeopardy!
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
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40. There are four main natural agents (causes) of erosion. Name 3 of them.

41. You must have 3 of the following: 1
You must have 3 of the following: 1. water (rainfall and rivers can carry sediment to other places) 2. wind (wind can pick up and move small rock material) 3. ice or glaciers (glaciers slowly move the sediment on the ocean floor) 4. gravity (gravity can cause mass movement)