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Round 1
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Final
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Spreading Who’s
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Boundaries
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The German scientist who
suggested the theory of
continental drift
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Who is Alfred Wegener?
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Name 2 of the 4 pieces of
evidence suggesting the
continents used to be joined
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What are…?
1-fossil
2-shape of the continents
3-rock/glacial/salt deposits
4-alignment of mountain ranges
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The name for the super continent
that existed 250 million years ago
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What is Pangaea?
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The main reason geologists did
not believe him was because his
theory was lacking this
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What is a satisfactory explanation
of the force that pushes or pulls
the continents?
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This was Wegener’s actual
profession
(was not a geologist!)
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What is a meterologist?
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These underwater formations
form the largest mountain chain
in the world
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What are midocean ridges?
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At midocean ridges, lava erupts
from the __________ and runs the
length of a ridge
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What is the rift valley?
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The age of the rocks on the
ocean floor get progressively
____________ the further away
from the mid-ocean ridge.
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What is older?
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The process of the oceanic plates
moving away from the midocean
ridges is known as this
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What is sea-floor spreading?
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Scientists are able to observe
“stripes” in the ocean floor
because these minerals freeze in
different directions when the
polarity of the planet changes.
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What is magnetite or iron?
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The process in which crust
plunges back into the Earth is
called this
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What is subduction?
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Deep, V-shaped canyons that
occur at areas of subduction
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What are trenches?
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This is why oceanic crust is
subducted under continental
crust (also why older oceanic
crust is subducted under newer
crust)
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What is that it is more dense?
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As crust is subducted, it melts
into magma which may rise and
eventually form these
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What are volcanoes?
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This is the deepest trench in the
world
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What is the Marianas trench?
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There are these many major
lithospheric plates
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What is 7?
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This is the largest lithospheric
plate
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What is the Pacific plate?
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This method of heat transfer is
the driving force behind the plate
movement
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What are convection currents?
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The Hawaiian Islands were
formed by this
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What is a hot spot?
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This type of activity is found at all
plate boundaries
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What is earthquake (seismic)
activity?
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This is the type of boundary
where midocean ridges form
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What are divergent boundaries?
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The type of boundary formed by a
lateral fault (plates grinding past
each other in a horizontal
direction)
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What is a transform boundary?
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Los Angeles is found on this
plate
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What is the Pacific plate?
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This explains why a convection
current works
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What is the deeper hotter mantle
material rises (less dense) and
then cools, becomes denser, and
sinks? This cycle repeats.
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These islands are formed when
two oceanic plates collide
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What are island arcs?
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Mountains only, no volcanoes,
are formed at this type of
convergent boundary
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What is a collision of two
continental plates
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This is the only country that has
a divergent boundary running
down the middle
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What is Iceland?
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This is why there is no
subduction at continentalcontinental collisions
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What is both plates are of very
similar density?
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The name for the earthquake and
volcano zone that encircles the
Pacific Ocean
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What is the Ring of Fire?
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This mountain chain is believed
to have been formed when the
North American plate converged
with another continental plate
during the formation of Pangaea.
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What are the Appalachian
Mountains?
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The category is:
Ancient Eruptions
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Final
Jeopardy
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Pompei and Herculaneum were
devastated by the eruption of this
legendary volcano in 79 A.D.
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What was Mt. Vesuvius?
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