Download Plate Tectonics Jeopardy

Continental Theory of
Drift and Sea
Plate
Floor
Tectonics
Spreading
Folding and
Faulting
Volcanoes
and
Earthquakes
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What did Wegener call the super
continent he believed existed
millions of years ago when all of the
continents were joined as one?
100 pts.
List three evidences Wegener
used to support his theory that
all the continents used to be
joined together?
200 pts.
What kind of plate boundary causes sea floor
spreading?
300 pts.
List three evidences that support Hess’s
Theory of Sea Floor Spreading.
400 pts.
What volcanic mountain range is forming in
South America as a result of the South
American plate colliding with an oceanic
plate?
500 pts.
Pangaea
100 pts.
Landforms, Fossils, Climate, Glacial
scarring, and/or Rock types.
200 pts.
Divergent Boundary
300 pts.
age of ocean floor, record of
magnetic reversals, and mid ocean
ridges.
400 pts.
The Andes Mountains
500 pts.
• Why are there convection currents in the
mantle?
100 pts.
• List the three types of Plate Boundaries and
draw arrows to show the direction the plates
are moving.
200 pts.
• What causes the plates to move
around?
300 pts.
• What is it called when one plate
moves under another plate?
400 pts.
• What are the two types of crust?
500 pts.
Heat from the core heats and
expands lower mantle, making it less
dense so it floats to the top, where
it cools and contracts, making it sink.
100 pts.
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
200 pts.
Convection currents
300 pts.
subduction
400 pts.
Continental and oceanic.
500 pts.
• Draw an anticline.
100 pts.
• Draw a reverse fault.
200 pts.
• _______________ is the type of stress in
which rock is squeezed.
300 pts.
• What kind of stress causes a normal fault?
400 pts.
• What is the difference between a fold and a
fault?
500 pts.
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200 pts.
compression
300 pts.
Tension
400 pts.
Folds occur when the rock
BENDS,
Faults occur when the rock
BREAKS.
500 pts.
• What are the three types of volcanoes?
100 pts.
• List three places volcanoes can
form.
200 pts.
• What causes Earthquakes?
300 pts.
• What type of plate boundary causes
earthquakes along California’s San Andreas
Fault?
400 pts.
• What three variables can be changed to
allow the rock in the Earth’s Mantle to
melt?
500 pts.
Shield, cinder cone, and
composite
100 pts.
Divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries,
and hot spots.
200 pts.
Elastic deformation/rebound,
stress building up along faults
and plate boundaries as plates
move around.
300 pts.
400 pts.
Transform
Relieving pressure, adding water,
and increasing temperature.
500 pts.
100 pts.
• How would you describe the term
“plastic” when referring to the
asthenosphere?
200 pts.
• What are the two scales used to classify
earthquakes?
300 pts.
• What instrument is used to measure
earthquakes, and what information can
seismologists get from it?
400 pts.
• Which seismic waves can NOT go through
the liquid outer core of the Earth?
500 pts.
• Draw a picture showing an example of
seismologist using triangulation to locate the
epicenter of an earthquake.
Solid but flexible, able to
move around
100 pts.
The Richter Scale and the Mercalli Scale
200 pts.
Seismograph- strength of EQ and
location of EQ from station.
300 pts.
S waves
400 pts.
500 pts.