Plate Tectonics Jeopardy

1. Choose a category.
You will be given the answer.
You must give the correct
question. Click to begin.

2. Click here for
Final Jeopardy

3. Convection
And the
Mantle
Sea Floor
Spreading
Plate-Tectonics
10 Point
20 Points
30 Points
40 Points
50 Points
10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point
20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points
30 Points
40 Points
50 Points
30 Points 30 Points 30 Points
40 Points 40 Points 40 Points
50 Points 50 Points 50 Points
Drifting
Continents
Earth’s Interior

4. Holes drilled several kilometers
into Earth’s crust provide direct
evidence about Earth’s interior in
the form of

5. Rock Samples

6. Geologists obtain
indirect evidence
about Earth’s
interior by

7. Recording and
Studying Seismic
waves

8. What is the
correct order
(starting from the
surface) of Earth’s
layers?

9. crust, mantle, outer
core, inner core

10. Earth’s inner core
is what in
structure?

11. a dense ball of solid
metal.

12. Name This Layer
And the sub layers

13. Mantle:
Lithosphere,
Asthenosphere,
Lower Mantle

14. When you touch a
hot pot or pan,
energy moves from
the pot to your
hand. This is called

15. Heat transfer

16. The transfer of
energy through
empty space is
called

17. Radiation

18. Heat transfer
within a fluid takes
place by

19. Convection
Currents

20. When the heat
source is removed
from a fluid,
convection currents
in the fluid will

21. Eventually Stop

22. Earth’s magnetic
field results from
movements in the

23. Outer Core

24. According to
Wegener’s
hypothesis of
continental drift,

25. the continents were
once joined
together in a single
landmass.

26. What is Pangaea?

27. the name of the
supercontinent that
existed millions of
years ago

28. Which type of
evidences were used
by Alfred Wegener
to support his
continental drift
hypothesis?

29. Landforms, Fossils,
Climate

30. Most geologists
rejected Alfred
Wegener’s idea of
continental drift
because

31. Wegener could not
identify a force
that could move
the continents.

32. Any trace of an
ancient organism
that has been
preserved in rock is
called a

33. Fossil

34. What technology
did scientists use in
the mid-1900s to
map the mid-ocean
ridge?

35. Sonar

36. In sea-floor
spreading, molten
material rises from
the mantle and
erupts

37. Along Mid-Ocean
Ridges

38. How did scientists
discover that rocks
farther away from
the mid-ocean
ridge were older
than those near it?

39. by determining the
age of rock samples
obtained by
drilling on the sea
floor

40. What did scientists
in a submersible see
when they observed
the mid-ocean
ridge?

41. rocks formed by
the rapid
hardening of
molten material

42. Most geologists
think that the
movement of
Earth’s plates is
caused by

43. Convection
Currents in the
Mantle

44. The geological theory
that states that pieces
of Earth’s lithosphere
are in constant, slow
motion is the theory of

45. Plate-Tectonics

46. A place where two
plates slip past each
other, moving in
opposite directions,
is known as a

47. Transform
Boundary

48. A rift valley forms
at a

49. Divergent Plate
Boundary

50. A collision between
two pieces of
continental crust at
a converging
boundary produces
a

51. Mountain Range

52. The place where
two plates come
together is known
as a

53. Convergent
Boundary

54. Make your wager

55. What is happening
at Z?

56. The edge of plate B
is plunging beneath
plate C and
melting in the
mantle.