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Earth’s Layers Jeopardy

Vocabulary Terms

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Final Jeopardy

Wegener’s Ideas

Earth’s Physical Structure

CompositionQuery

$100 Question

The movement of melted rock due to heat energy causing density

changes.

$100 Answer

What are convection currents?

$200 Question

This word means the smallest size a material can be broken down into and still retain its chemical

properties.

$200 Answer

What is an element?

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This idea describes the broken part of the crust and

upper mantle.

$300 Answer

What are tectonic plates?

$400 Question

This word describes a scientific guess based on

evidence.

$400 Answer

What is a hypothesis?

$500 Question

This phrase means the changes in the direction of magnet particles found in rocks along the sea floor.

$500 Answer

What is magnetic reversals?

$100 Question

Wegener’s first name.

$100 Answer

What is Alfred?

$200 Question

Wegener’s hypothesis.

$200 Answer

What is continental drift?

$300 Question

They are coastlines, fossils, and climates in

rock layers.

$300 Answer

What are Wegener’s evidence?

$400 Question

Wegener’s tome.

$400 Answer

What is The Origin of

Continents and Oceans?

$500 Question

Antarctica’s tropical plant

fossil.

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What is Glossopteris?

$100 Question

The outer layer of crust and upper mantle.

$100 Answer

What is the lithosphere?

$200 Question

A solid center.

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What is the inner core?

$300 Question

This layer is completely solid mantle.

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What is the mesosphere?

$400 Question

Its movements create a magnetic polarity.

$400 Answer

What is the outer core?

$500 Question

This plastic convection layer can really crack things up.

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What is the asthenosphere?

$100 Question

Magnesium makes up most of this layer.

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What is the mantle?

$200 Question

Iron with some nickel.

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What is the core?

$300 Question

Composition elements of the crust.

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What are oxygen, silicon, and aluminum?

$400 Question

________ has caused this crust to sink.

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What are magnesium, calcium, and iron?

$500 Question

Percentage of the Earth’s mass as mantle.

$500 Answer

What is 67 percent?

$100 Question

_______ means ‘whole earth’ in Greek.

$100 Answer

What is Pangaea?

$200 Question

Broke into North America, Europe, and Asia.

$200 Answer

What is Laurasia?

$300 Question

Broke into Africa, South America, Antarctica, and

Australia.

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What is Gondwanaland?

$400 Question

A spreading sea floor physical feature.

$400 Answer

What is an ocean ridge?

$500 Question

Pattern of magnetic particles when the magnetic pole is in the Southern

Hemisphere.

$500 Answer

What is a reverse pattern?

Final Jeopardy

Seismic waves speed up as they pass through…..

Final Jeopardy Answer

What are denser elements?