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The Changing Earth
Review
Double Jeopardy
Jeopardy Round 1
Layers of More
Plate
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Volcanoes
the Earth Layers Movement Movement & Quakes
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More Layers
$100
Answer:
Scientific evidence
indicates the Earth
is made of this many
basic layers.
What is 4?
More Layers
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Answer:
This layer surrounds
the Earth like a shell
or skin.
What is the crust?
More Layers
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This layer is found at
the very center of
the Earth and is
shaped like a
sphere.
What is the inner
core?
More Layers
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Seismology is the study of
this, which gives us a lot
of information about the
inner core.
What are
earthquakes?
More Layers
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Melted rock in the
Earth’s mantle is
called this.
What is magma?
Layers of the Earth
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This is the thickest
layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Layers of the Earth
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The inner core should
be liquid, but it’s
solid because of this
from the other
layers.
What is pressure?
Layers of the Earth
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Answer:
This layer of the Earth
is made of molten
iron and nickel.
What is the outer
core?
Layers of the Earth
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Answer:
This is the thinnest
and coldest layer of
the Earth.
What is the crust?
Layers of the Earth
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This layer of the Earth
is made of solid iron
and nickel.
What is the inner
core?
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
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Answer:
The Ring of Fire is a
chain of over 300
active volcanoes
located in this
ocean.
What is the Pacific
Ocean?
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
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Seismographs can
detect energy
released in these
and can help predict
volcanic eruptions.
What are
earthquakes?
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
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Answer:
In the year 69, Mt.
Vesuvius erupted
and buried this
Roman town.
What is Pompeii?
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
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Though very rare,
underwater
earthquakes can
cause these
destructive ocean
waves.
What is tsunamis?
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
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Answer:
This from volcanoes
can be very
dangerous to
breathe, but will
create very fertile
soil.
What is ash?
Plate Movement
$400
Answer:
This theory suggests
that plates move
slowly about the
Earth’s surface,
driven by heat.
What is the
Continental Drift
Theory?
Plate Movement
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Answer:
At one time, the
continents all
formed one
supercontinent,
named this.
What is Pangea?
Plate Movement
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Answer:
These imprints or
remains of once
living things give us
information about
how life was in the
past.
What are fossils?
Plate Movement
$100
Answer:
This type of energy
within the Earth
causes plates to
move.
• What is thermal (or
heat) energy?
Plate Movement
$200
Answer:
These are large
continent-sized
blocks of rock from
the crust and upper
mantle.
• What are plates?
More Movement
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Mountains formed in the ocean
are called these.
What are midocean ridges?
More Movement
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This type of boundary
occurs when plates
move apart from
each other.
Volcanoes and midocean ridges often
form here.
What is divergent?
More Movement
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Answer:
This type of boundary
occurs with plates slide
past one another.
Earthquakes occur
here.
What is transform?
More Movement
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Answer:
This type of boundary
occurs when plates
move together.
Mountain ranges
and trenches often
form here.
What is convergent?
More Movement
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These are breaks in
the Earth’s crust that
result from the
ground shifting.
What are faults?
Final Jeopardy
Double Jeopardy!
Fossils
Planets
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Fossils
$600
Answer:
Fossils of dinosaur
footprints were
found in this region
of Virginia.
What is the
Piedmont region?
Fossils
$800
Answer:
Because of this
reason, we know
that the Appalachian
Mountains were
once warm, steamy,
and swampy like the
Florida Everglades.
What is “because
fossils of ferns were
found in this
region”?
Fossils
$1000
Answer:
This region of
Virginia was once
covered by an
ocean. We know
this because of
the fossils found
here.
What is the Coastal
Plain/Tidewater
region?
Fossils
$400
Answer:
Bones and teeth from
ancient ocean
animals were found
in this region of
Virginia.
What is the
Coastal
Plain/Tidewater
region?
Fossils
$200
Answer:
Fossils of ferns were
found in this region
of Virginia.
What are the
Appalachian
Mountains?
Planets
$200
Answer:
List the planets in order from
closest to the sun to furthest.
What is:
Mercury,
Venus,
Earth, Mars,
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Uranus,
Neptune?
Planets
$400
Answer:
The 4 planets are
terrestrial.
What are:
Mars,
Mercury,
Venus,
Earth?
Planets
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Answer:
These 4 planets are gas giants.
What are
Jupiter,
Uranus,
Neptune,
Saturn?
Planets
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• Answer:
This is the largest planet.
What is
Jupiter?
Planets
$1000
Answer:
This is a list of the planets in order
from largest to smallest.
What is:
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Uranus,
Neptune,
Earth,
Venus,
Mars,
Mercury?
Final Jeopardy!
Layers of the Earth
Make your bid!!
Draw a diagram of the 4 layers of the Earth.
Label each layer. Tell what each layer is made
of (For the inner and outer core – you must
distinguish which one is solid and which one is
made of molten material).
The crust and mantle are made of rocky material.
The outer core is made of molten iron and nickel.
The inner core is made of solid iron and nickel.