1. 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 Plate Tectonics II Volcanoes Rocks Continental Drift Geology Vocab FINAL JEOPARDY

2. Plate Tectonics II $ 200 What landform is created when two continents collide?

3. ANSWER: mountains

4. Plate Tectonics II $400 How do the plates move at a divergent boundary?

5. ANSWER: Move away from each other

6. Plate Tectonics II $600 Subduction is associated with which part of the ocean floor?

7. ANSWER: Trench

8. Plate Tectonics II $800 When two oceanic plates collide, which oceanic plate is subducted? WHY?

9. ANSWER: More dense is subducted, because it is older.

10. Plate Tectonics II $1000 What type of plate boundaries created each of the following landforms? a.Aleutian Islands b.Mid-Atlantic Ridge c.Andes Mountains

11. ANSWER: a. Aleutian Islands = Convergent b. Mid-Atlantic Ridge = Divergent c. Andes Mountains = Convergent

12. Volcanoes $200 What type of volcanoes have alternating layers of ash and lava and exist around the Ring of Fire?

13. ANSWER Composite volcanoes

14. Volcanoes $400 What type of volcano is the gradual sloping Mauna Loa volcano located on the Big Island of Hawaii?

15. ANSWER: Shield volcano

16. Volcanoes $600 Dust, ash and cinders mixed with extreme heat traveling down a volcano are an example of a______________________.

17. ANSWER: Pyroclastic flow

18. Volcanoes $800 What TWO ingredients are found in magma that creates violent explosive eruptions?

19. ANSWER: Silica AND water

20. Volcanoes $1000 Why are volcanoes considered constructive and destructive forces?

21. ANSWER: Create crust with lava eruptions; destroys crust with explosive eruptions

22. Rocks $200 What is the name of the clastic sedimentary rock that feels like sandpaper?

23. ANSWER: sandstone

24. Rocks $400 What is the name of an organic sedimentary rock that is made from ancient plant material?

25. ANSWER: Coal

26. Rocks $600 Granite has a texture of large crystals so it is classified as an ____________________ igneous rock.

27. ANSWER: Intrusive igneous rock

28. Rocks $800 Which rock type is most likely to have fossils preserved in it?

29. ANSWER: Sedimentary rock

30. Rocks $1000 What metamorphic rock will shale become under tremendous heat and pressure?

31. ANSWER: slate

32. Continental Drift $200 What is the name of the super continent that existed 250 million years ago?

33. ANSWER: Pangaea

34. Continental Drift $400 Who came up with the theory of Continental Drift?

35. ANSWER: Alfred Wegener

36. Continental Drift $600 How do coal deposits found in Antarctica support the theory of Continental Drift?

37. ANSWER: Coal forms in tropical areas, therefore Antarctica must have been located closer to the equator at one time.

38. Continental Drift $800 What ocean began to form 250 million years ago and continues to split apart the continents today?

39. ANSWER: Atlantic Ocean

40. Continental Drift $1000 Before the theory of Continental Drift became accepted, how did most scientists explain how similar fossils were found on continents like Africa and South America?

41. ANSWER: Land bridges

42. Geology Vocab $ 200 What type of volcanic activity created the Hawaiian Islands?

43. ANSWER: Hot Spot

44. Geology Vocab $ 400 What is the name of the scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake using a seismograph?

45. ANSWER: Richter Scale

46. Geology Vocab $ 600 What term is defined as a naturally occurring solid mixture of minerals or organic matter?

47. ANSWER: A rock

48. Geology Vocab $ 800 Give one example of a destructive force found in geology besides volcanoes.

49. ANSWER: Erosion & weathering OR Subduction

50. Geology Vocab $ 1000 What is the name of the soft layer of the mantle that the lithospheric plates move on?

51. ANSWER: asthenosphere

52. Final Jeopardy Folded mountains usually form at the edge of tectonic plates. How can you explain folded mountain ranges located in the middle of continents?

53. ANSWER: These interior mountains must have one time been on the edge of a plate boundary that collided with another plate and fused together.