1. Jeopardy!
Vocabulary 1
Misc.
Erosion & Weathering
Earth’s Interior
Plate Tectonics
100
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200
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2. What are physical features on the surface of the Earth?
Vocabulary 1: 100
What are physical features on the surface of the Earth?
earthquake
faults
landforms
lava
magma
volcano
landforms

3. Vocabulary 1: 200
What is a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust?
earthquake
faults
landforms
lava
magma
volcano
earthquake

4. Vocabulary 1: 300
What is a mountain formed (usually at plate boundaries) by lava and ash?
earthquake
faults
landforms
lava
magma
volcano
volcano

5. What is molten, or liquid, rock from Earth’s mantle?
Vocabulary 1: 400
What is molten, or liquid, rock from Earth’s mantle?
earthquake
faults
landforms
lava
magma
volcano
magma

6. What is magma that reaches Earth’s surface?
Vocabulary 1: 500
What is magma that reaches Earth’s surface?
earthquake
faults
landforms
lava
magma
volcano
lava

7. Name one of Earth’s landforms that has been caused by plate movement.
Misc.: 100
Name one of Earth’s landforms that has been caused by plate movement.
trenches, mid-ocean ridges, mountain ranges

8. Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
Vocabulary 2: 200
Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
along fault lines

9. What are the remains or traces of past life found in sedimentary rock?
Vocabulary 2: 300
What are the remains or traces of past life found in sedimentary rock?
fossils

10. Vocabulary 2: 400
Give an example of a food that models Earth’s layers and explain why it is a good model.
Possible answers: hard-boiled egg, peach, peanut M&M’s, etc. because they have layers that represent a crust, mantle, and core.

11. What causes plate movement?
Vocabulary 2: 500
What causes plate movement?
Earth’s heat energy

12. What is the process of moving sediment from one place to another?
Erosion & Weathering: 100
What is the process of moving sediment from one place to another?
erosion

13. Erosion & Weathering: 200
What is the process of breaking rock into silt, sand, clay, and other tiny pieces, called sediment.
weathering

14. Name two things that cause weathering and erosion.
Erosion & Weathering: 300
Name two things that cause weathering and erosion.
water, wind, glaciers, gravity

15. Erosion & Weathering: 400
What is the process of dropping, or depositing, sediment in a new location?
deposition

16. What is the downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity?
Erosion & Weathering: 500
What is the downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity?
100 Point Bonus!
Give an example.
Landslide, mudslide, or creep
mass movement

17. Name Earth’s four layers from outermost to innermost.
Earth’s Interior: 100
Name Earth’s four layers from outermost to innermost.
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

18. Which of Earth’s layers is the hottest?
Earth’s Interior: 200
Which of Earth’s layers is the hottest?
100 Point Bonus!
Is it solid or liquid?
solid
inner core

19. Earth’s Interior: 300
Which is the only layer of Earth that is totally liquid and is made mostly of iron and nickel?
outer core

20. Which layer of Earth does magma come from?
Earth’s Interior: 400
Which layer of Earth does magma come from?
mantle

21. Describe Earth’s crust.
Earth’s Interior: 500
Describe Earth’s crust. 3 2 4 1
rocky, thin, the part we live on

22. Plate Tectonics: 100
What is the theory of how Earth’s continents move over its surface known as?
continental drift

23. Plate Tectonics: 200
What is the name of the supercontinent containing all of Earth’s land that was believed to have existed about 225 million years ago.
Pangea

24. What is the name of the boundary where one plate slides past another?
Plate Tectonics: 300
What is the name of the boundary where one plate slides past another?
transform, sliding, or strike-slip

25. What is the name of the boundary where two plates come together?
Plate Tectonics: 400
What is the name of the boundary where two plates come together?
convergent boundary

26. Plate Tectonics: 500
What is the name of the boundary where two plates pull apart from each other?
divergent boundary

27. Daily Double