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Earth’s Layers Jeopardy Vocabulary Terms Mixed Bag Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $300 Q $400 Q $200 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Wegener’s Ideas Earth’s Physical Structure Composition Query

$100 Question The movement of melted rock due to heat energy causing density changes.

$100 Answer What are convection currents?

$200 Question This word means the smallest size a material can be broken down into and still retain its chemical properties.

$200 Answer What is an element?

$300 Question This idea describes the broken part of the crust and upper mantle.

$300 Answer What are tectonic plates?

$400 Question This word describes a scientific guess based on evidence.

$400 Answer What is a hypothesis?

$500 Question This phrase means the changes in the direction of magnet particles found in rocks along the sea floor.

$500 Answer What is magnetic reversals?

$100 Question Wegener’s first name.

$100 Answer What is Alfred?

$200 Question Wegener’s hypothesis.

$200 Answer What is continental drift?

$300 Question They are coastlines, fossils, and climates in rock layers.

$300 Answer What are Wegener’s evidence?

$400 Question Wegener’s tome.

$400 Answer What is The Origin of Continents and Oceans?

$500 Question Antarctica’s tropical plant fossil.

$500 Answer What is Glossopteris?

$100 Question The outer layer of crust and upper mantle.

$100 Answer What is the lithosphere?

$200 Question A solid center.

$200 Answer What is the inner core?

$300 Question This layer is completely solid mantle.

$300 Answer What is the mesosphere?

$400 Question Its movements create a magnetic polarity.

$400 Answer What is the outer core?

$500 Question This plastic convection layer can really crack things up.

$500 Answer What is the asthenosphere?

$100 Question Magnesium makes up most of this layer.

$100 Answer What is the mantle?

$200 Question Iron with some nickel.

$200 Answer What is the core?

$300 Question Composition elements of the crust.

$300 Answer What are oxygen, silicon, and aluminum?

$400 Question ________ has caused this crust to sink.

$400 Answer What are magnesium, calcium, and iron?

$500 Question Percentage of the Earth’s mass as mantle.

$500 Answer What is 67 percent?

$100 Question _______ means ‘whole earth’ in Greek.

$100 Answer What is Pangaea?

$200 Question Broke into North America, Europe, and Asia.

$200 Answer What is Laurasia?

$300 Question Broke into Africa, South America, Antarctica, and Australia.

$300 Answer What is Gondwanaland?

$400 Question A spreading sea floor physical feature.

$400 Answer What is an ocean ridge?

$500 Question Pattern of magnetic particles when the magnetic pole is in the Southern Hemisphere.

$500 Answer What is a reverse pattern?

Final Jeopardy Seismic waves speed up as they pass through…..

Final Jeopardy Answer What are denser elements?