Jeopardy

1. Jeopardy Earthquakes Boundaries Faults/ Stresses Plate Tectonics and Vocabulary Continental Drift $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

2. Where do the strongest earthquakes usually occur? Near transform boundaries 1 - $100

3. 1 - $200 • The last and most dangerous waves to arrive are the • Surface waves

4. 1 - $300 • Which wave pushes rock side to side • S wave

5. 1 - $400 • What is the difference between an earthquake’s epicenter and its focus • The focus is inside the earth and the epicenter is on the surface

6. 1 - $500 • The cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking is called • A convection current

7. 2 - $100 • Two plates moving apart are what type of boundary • divergent

8. 2 - $200 • Type of boundary where two tectonic plates push together, toward each other • Convergent

9. 2 - $300 • A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces a • Mountain range

10. 2 - $400 • What is the process in which the ocean floor sinks under a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle • Subduction

11. 2 - $500 • A rrift valley forms at what type of boundary • divergent

12. 3 - $100 • What type of stress give you a convergent boundary • compression

13. 3 - $200 • What type of stress give you a transform boundary • shearing

14. 3 - $300 • What type of stress give you a divergent boundary • tension

15. 3 - $400 • What type of fault do you have at a divergent boundary • Normal fault

16. 3 - $500 • The San Andreas Fault occurs at a transform boundary, what kind of fault is it • Strike-slip fault

17. 4 - $100 • The Theory of …… states that pieces of Earth’s lithosphere are in constant, slow motion • Theory of Plate Tectonics

18. 4 - $200 • Most earthquakes occur along or near the edges of the Earth’s • Tectonic plates

19. 4 - $300 • The youngest rock in the ocean floor are located at the mid-ocean ……. • Ridge

20. 4 - $400 • The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle • Lithosphere

21. 4 - $500 • The vibrations caused by an earthquake • Seismic waves

22. 5 - $100 • What is the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago • Pangea

23. 5 - $200 • According to Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift the continents were • Joined together in a single landmass

24. 5 - $300 • Using data from seismic waves, geologists have learned that Earth’s interior is made of of several • Layers

25. 5 - $400 • To support his hypothesis, Wegener provided evidence from ……, traces of ancient organisms preserved in rock • fossils

26. 5 - $500 • The lithosphere is broken into sections known as ……, which float on top of the athensophere • plates

27. Final Jeopardy • What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of the Earth’s layers • Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core