Jeopardy Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Sea-Floor Spreading Plate Tectonics Earth’s Structure Continental Drift Energy Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Answer The thinner, denser type of crust.

$100 Question What is oceanic crust?

$200 Answer The rigid layer is made up of the crust and upper portion of the mantle.

$200 Question What is the lithosphere?

$300 Answer A method scientists use to indirectly study the interior of the Earth.

$300 Question What are seismic waves/Earth’s magnetic field?

$400 Answer The dense layer of solid iron and nickel.

$400 Question What is the inner core?

$500 Answer The most massive of all of Earth’s layers.

$500 Question What is the mantle?

$100 Answer The direct transfer of energy through space.

$100 Question What is radiation?

$200 Answer A type of heat transfer between materials that are in contact.

$200 Question What is conduction?

$300 Answer Measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance.

$300 Question What is density?

$400 Answer The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid (liquid or gas).

$400 Question What is convection?

$500 Answer Convection currents are found in these two layers of the Earth (be specific!)

$500 Question What is the outer core and mantle (asthenosphere)?

$100 Answer The last supercontinent landmass.

$100 Question What is Pangaea?

$200 Answer He was one of the first to propose the theory of Continental Drift.

$200 Question Who is Alfred Wegener?

$300 Answer The reason the continental drift hypothesis was initially rejected by the scientific community.

$300 Question What is no explanation for a force that can move continents?

$400 Answer Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.

$400 Question What is a fossil?

$500 Answer All three main pieces of evidence that support continental drift.

$500 Question What is evidence from land features, fossils, and climate.

$100 Answer Location of sea-floor spreading.

$100 Question What are mid-ocean ridges?

$200 Answer Process by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle.

$200 Question What is subduction?

$300 Answer Causes the ocean floor to move like conveyer belts, creating new land.

$300 Question What is sea-floor spreading?

$400 Answer The device used to map the mid-ocean ridges.

$400 Question What is sonar?

$500 Answer The three main pieces of evidence that support sea-floor spreading.

$500 Question What are evidence of molten material, magnetic stripes, and drilling samples that show old and new rock?

$100 Answer Separate sections of the lithosphere.

$100 Question What are tectonic plates?

$200 Answer Type of boundary where one plate can sink beneath the other.

$200 Question What is a convergent boundary?

$300 Answer Type of boundary where rift valleys form.

$300 Question What is a divergent boundary?

$400 Answer Type of boundary where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions.

$400 Question What is a transform boundary?

$500 Answer The types of plates that collide to form large, folded mountain ranges.

$500 Question What are continental plates?

Final Jeopardy He is known for discovering ocean ridges and proposing the idea of sea-floor spreading.

Final Jeopardy Answer Who is Harry Hess?