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Science Jeopardy
Rocks
Minerals
Erosion/Deposition
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
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Double Jeopardy Round
A-100
• ANSWER: Three main types of rocks.
• QUESTION: What is sedimentary,
metamorphic, and igneous?
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A-200
• ANSWER: Type of rock that forms from
the cooling of lava or magma.
• QUESTION: What is igneous?
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A-300
• ANSWER: Type of rock that forms by heat
and pressure.
• QUESTION: What are metamorphic
rocks?
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A-400
• ANSWER: Type of rock that forms when
layers of sediment are packed together.
• QUESTION: What are sedimentary rocks?
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A-500
• ANSWER: ________ rock grains form
when lava cools down quickly.
• QUESTION: What is small?
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B-100
• ANSWER: The evaporation of water can
cause ___________ to form.
• QUESTION: What are minerals?
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B-200
• ANSWER: The slow cooling of lava or
magma causes _________ crystals to form.
• QUESTION: What is large?
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B-300
• ANSWER: A mineral’s shine.
• QUESTION: What is luster?
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B-400
• ANSWER: Calcite will fizz using this test.
• QUESTION: What is the acid test?
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B-500 Daily Double
• ANSWER: The scale scientists use to test a
mineral’s hardness.
• QUESTION: What is the Moh’s Hardness
Scale?
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C-100
• ANSWER: The pickup and removal of
sediment.
• QUESTION: What is erosion?
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C-200
• ANSWER: Process by which the sediment
settles out of wind or water and is placed in
a new location.
• QUESTION: What is deposition?
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C-300
• ANSWER: The 5 major causes of erosion.
• QUESTION: What is water, gravity,
glaciers, waves, and wind?
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C-400
• ANSWER: Canyons (Grand Canyon),
waterfalls (Yosemite Falls), V-Shaped
Valleys (Yosemite).
• QUESTION: What are landforms caused
by water erosion?
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C-500
• ANSWER: 4 types of mass movement.
• QUESTION: What are landslides,
mudflows, slumps, and creeps?
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D-100
• ANSWER: Extrusive
• QUESTION: What is an igneous rock that
forms from lava on Earth’s surface.
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D-200
• ANSWER: Liquid magma that reaches the
surface.
• QUESTION: What is lava?
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D-300
• ANSWER: Organic
• QUESTION: What is sedimentary rock
that forms where remains or organisms are
deposited in thick layers?
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D-400
• ANSWER: The color of a mineral’s
powder.
• QUESTION: What is streak color?
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D-500
• ANSWER: Grain
• QUESTION: What is a particle of mineral
or other rock that gives rock its texture?
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E-100
• ANSWER: Types of moving water from
smallest to largest.
• QUESTION: What are rills, gullies,
streams, and rivers?
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E-200
• ANSWER: Luster, streak color, hardness,
and smell.
• QUESTION: What are 5 tests we use to
identify minerals?
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E-300
• ANSWER: Diamonds
• QUESTION: What is metamorphic?
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E-400
• ANSWER: Deposits of limestone sediment
in caves that hang like icicles on the roof.
• QUESTION: What are stalactites?
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E-500
• ANSWER: 5 landforms caused by river
erosion.
• QUESTION: What are valleys, waterfalls,
flood plains, meanders, and oxbow lakes?
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Science Double Jeopardy
Rock Cycle
Natural Resources
Continental
Drift/Earth’s Interior
Vocabulary
Plate Tectonics
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Final Jeopardy
A-200
• ANSWER: The process that slowly
changes rocks from one form to another.
• QUESTION: What is the rock cycle?
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A-400
• ANSWER: Changing sedimentary rocks
into metamorphic rocks.
• QUESTION: What is heat and pressure.
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A-600
• ANSWER: Changing metamorphic rocks
into magma.
• QUESTION: What is melting?
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A-800
• ANSWER: Changing igneous rocks into
sedimentary rocks.
• QUESTION: What is erosion?
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A-1,000
• ANSWER: Changing metamorphic rocks
into igneous rocks.
• QUESTION: What is cannot be done?
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B-200
• ANSWER: Coal, oil, and Natural Gas.
• QUESTION: What are non-renewable
resources?
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B-400
• ANSWER: Sun, water, and wind.
• QUESTION: What are renewable
resources?
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B-600
• ANSWER: Renewable resources.
• QUESTION: What are resources that can
be replaced or reused in a short period of
time?
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B-800
• ANSWER: Non-Renewable.
• QUESTION: What are resources that
cannot be used again?
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B-1,000
• ANSWER: Fossil Fuels.
• QUESTION: What are coal, oil, and
natural gas?
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C-200
• ANSWER: The scientist who came up with
the theory of continental drift.
• QUESTION: Who is Alfred Wegner?
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C-400
• ANSWER: 300 millions years ago there
was a super continent called _________.
• QUESTION: What is Pangea?
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C-600
• ANSWER: The two types of crust.
• QUESTION: What is oceanic and
continental?
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C-800
• ANSWER: This layer of the Earth consists
of the upper mantle and the crust.
• QUESTION: What is the lithosphere?
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C-1,000 Daily Double!
• ANSWER: Alfred Wegner found this on
Antarctica providing evidence for his
continental drift theory.
• QUESTION: What are reptile fossils?
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D-200
• ANSWER: Sediment
• QUESTION: What are small, solid
particles or material from rocks/organisms
which are moved by wind, water, glaciers,
etc.?
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D-400
• ANSWER: Human and animal wastes,
garbage.
• QUESTION: What is sewage pollution?
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D-600
• ANSWER: Waste gases that come from
cars and factories combine with droplets or
water in the air to form a dirty looking
cloud.
• QUESTION: What is smog?
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D-800
• ANSWER: Thermal pollution.
• QUESTION: What is excess heating of the
environment?
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D-1,000
• ANSWER: A hard, colorful mineral that
has a brilliant or glass luster.
• QUESTION: What is a gemstone.
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E-200
• ANSWER: The type of plate boundary
where two plates move toward each other.
• QUESTION: What is a convergent
boundary?
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E-400
• ANSWER: Divergent plate boundary.
• QUESTION: What is a boundary where
two plates move away from each other?
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E-600
• ANSWER: This process occurs at the MidOcean Ridge.
• QUESTION: What is sea floor spreading?
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E-800
• ANSWER: The process where an oceanic
plate moves under a continental plate.
• QUESTION: What is subduction?
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E-1,000
• ANSWER: Transform Plate Boundary.
• QUESTION: What are two plates that slide
past each other?
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Final Jeopardy
• ANSWER: Explain why the Atlantic Ocean
is getting bigger and the Pacific Ocean is
getting smaller.
• QUESTION: What is the Atlantic oceanic
plate gets larger at the sea floor spreading
center and pushes the continental plates
outwards while the Pacific oceanic plate has
sea floor spreading, BUT subducts under
the continental plates.
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