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MS 20 JEOPARDY

Dive into the world of geology with Geojeopardy! Explore plate tectonics, minerals, rocks, marine sediments, and seawater through exciting trivia questions. Have fun while learning about the Earth's fascinating processes.

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MS 20 JEOPARDY

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  1. MS 20 JEOPARDY Plate Tectonics Minerals Rocks Marine sediment Seawater 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. ANSWER: This hot belt surrounding the pacific ocean is known for 80% of the world’s volcanoes and earthquakes QUESTION: What is the “ring of fire” Plate Tectonics - 100

  3. ANSWER: The fastest of earthquake waves characterized by push-pull motion QUESTION: What is a “P” wave? Plate Tectonics - 200

  4. ANSWER: A fault type caused by sea-floor spreading under ocean ridges. It produces horsts and grabens. QUESTION: What is a normal fault? Plate Tectonics - 300

  5. ANSWER: This zone is characterized by compression and has shallow, intermediate, and deep-focus earthquakes. QUESTION: What is a subduction zone? Plate Tectonics - 400

  6. ANSWER: This fault type is commonly perpendicular to ocean ridges. One is tearing California apart. QUESTION: What is a transform fault? Plate Tectonics - 500

  7. ANSWER: It occurs naturally, is crystalline and has a fairly definite chemical formula QUESTION: What is a mineral? Minerals - 100

  8. ANSWER: This term refers to the regular pattern of atoms within a mineral QUESTION: What is a crystal? Minerals - 200

  9. ANSWER: Quartz and feldspar QUESTION: What are the most common minerals in California beach sand? Or What are felsic minerals? Minerals - 300

  10. ANSWER: This term describes the quality of light reflecting from the surface of a mineral QUESTION: What is a luster? Minerals - 400

  11. ANSWER: The color of a powdered mineral QUESTION: What is streak? Minerals - 500

  12. ANSWER: This item is an aggregate of minerals QUESTION: What is a rock? Rocks - 100

  13. ANSWER: A rock formed by slow cooling within Earth’s crust QUESTION: What is a plutonic/intrusive rock? Rocks - 200

  14. ANSWER: A dark, heavy rock containing abundant iron and magnesium QUESTION: What is a mafic rock? Rocks - 300

  15. ANSWER: a rock formed at Earth’s surface by erosion, transportation, and deposition and lithification of sediment QUESTION: What is a sedimentary rock? Rocks - 400

  16. ANSWER: A poorly sorted sedimentary rock with angular fragments QUESTION: What is breccia? Rocks - 500

  17. ANSWER: Lithogenous, biogenous, hydrogenous and cosmogenous QUESTION: What 4 categories are used to classify sediments by origin? Marine Sediments - 100

  18. ANSWER: The depth at which calcium carbonate input equals dissolution QUESTION: What is the CCCD? Marine Sediments - 200

  19. ANSWER: A size distribution scale ranging from boulders to cobbles to pebbles to sand, silt and clay QUESTION: What is the Wentworth scale? Marine Sediments - 300

  20. ANSWER: A marine sediment containing at least 30% biological material QUESTION: What is an ooze? Marine Sediments - 400

  21. ANSWER: A coccolithophore QUESTION: What is microscopic plant which leaves behind calcium carbonate fossils on the sea floor? Marine Sediments - 500

  22. ANSWER: An atom with a + charge or a - charge QUESTION: What is an ion? Seawater - 100

  23. ANSWER: Covalent bond QUESTION: What type of chemical bonding occurs within a water molecule? Seawater - 200

  24. ANSWER: 105 degrees QUESTION: What angle occurs between hydrogen atoms in the water molecule? Or: What is the angle away from an epicenter at which shadow zones begin? Seawater - 300

  25. ANSWER: High surface tension, adhesion, cohesion QUESTION: What properties make water weird? (all due to the hydrogen bond) Seawater - 400

  26. ANSWER: 540 calories/gram/degree C QUESTION: What is water’s latent heat of vaporization? Seawater - 500

  27. ANSWER: Roy G Biv QUESTION: Who is the visible light spectrum named after? FINAL GEOJEOPARDY

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