JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY

• Mrs. Kellers
• 6th Grade Science
• Chapter 8 - Plate Tectonics

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THE RULES

• Everyone will actively participate.
• Each team will decide on a batting order.
  Please write it down.
• No penalties for wrong answers, so try.
• Each team will be rewarded with points.
• Be positive, encourage your teammates.
• Teacher is the Judge, all decisions are final.

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Jeopardy Round Categories are
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Plate Tectonics
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Supercontinent
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Plate Boundaries
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Metamorphic Rocks
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Moving Plates
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Jeopardy
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Metamorphic Rocks
Moving Plates
Plate Boundaries
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• What type of landform is formed by a mantle plume
  hot spot?
• What is?

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400

• Long chains of undersea mountains are known as
  what?
• What are?

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• ________ is the process by which new ocean floor
  is created and causes the continents to drift.
• What is?

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• Which scientists work inspired a tremendous
  surge in scientific progress on the topic of
  plate tectonics?
• Who is?

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• Convection cells in ______ are responsible for
  the movement of tectonic plates.
• What is?

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• ______ is the name given to the ancient
  supercontinent composed of earlier forms of
  todays continents.
• What is?

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• _____ was the scientist who put forth the idea of
  continental drift.
• Who is?

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• The idea that continents move slowly on Earths
  surface is known as
• What is?

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• Large pieces of Earths crust that move over the
  aesthenosphere are known as
• What are?

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• Wegeners evidence for continental drift included
  the matching of what three things?
• What are?

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• The best way to detect transform faults is by the
  _____ they cause.
• What are?

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• Older lithospheric plates are cooler plates, and
  therefore _____ than young plates.
• What is?

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• A rising mantle plume in the mantle may divide
  the lithosphere above and form a _______.
• What is?

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800

• One of the main pieces of evidence for sea-floor
  spreading is
• What are?

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• The valleys that form in the ocean floor when two
  oceanic plates collide are called
• What are?

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• Metamorphic rocks are formed from
• What are?

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• A metamorphic rock is formed when heat and
  pressure change _____, _____, and _____ rocks.
• What are?

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• What type of rock is continental crust primarily
  made of?
• What is?

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• What type of rock is oceanic crust primarily made
  of?
• What is?

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• When limestone is squeezed in a convergent plate
  boundary it forms
• What is?

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• The sinking of one lithospheric plate under
  another lithospheric plate is known as
• What is?

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400
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• Mountain ranges are most often formed at _____
  boundaries.
• What is?

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• Divergent boundaries found on land are known as
• What are?

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• _____ boundaries are found over the rising part
  of a lower mantle convection cell.
• What are?

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• Old crust is consumed at a _____ plate boundary?
• What is?

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Thank You for Playing Jeopardy