True or False: Earthquakes are always found next to volcanoes.
False. For example, in Southern California we have earthquakes, but no volcanoes.
100
Write down one piece of evidence that supports the theory of Plate Tectonics.
YES!
100
TRUE or FALSE: We are close enough to the San Andreas Fault to feel earthquakes when it moves.
TRUE
100
TRUE OR FALSE: Hot air rises
TRUE!
100
Send up someone with acting skills
Say this in an Australian accent, "These pretzels are making me thirsty"
200
Many earthquakes and volcanoes are found around the Pacific Plate. This region is known as the "_____ of ______"
Ring of fire
200
Why does a compass point North?
Magnetism
200
Name the tectonic plate that Long Beach is on.
Pacific Plate
200
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What type of plate boundary does this represent.
Convergent
200
Send up someone with dancing skills
Do the macarana
300
Hawaiian has volcanoes, but is not at a plate boundary. Why does Hawaii have volcanoes?
It is over a hot spot
300
What is the consistency of the rock in the mantle?
"plastic" or a dough-like solid.
300
Name the tectonic plate that most of San Francisco is on
North American Plate
300
Draw a divergent plate boundary
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300
Send up a hungry team member.
Hot sauce packet challenge!
400
When will the next large Earthquake occur in Long Beach?
a) Within the next year
b) within thirty years
c) the exact date is not predictable
d) Before the end of the school year
c) the exact date is not predicatable
400
Which layer is the "weak" layer?
Asthenosphere
400
What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault on?
Transform
400
Draw "subduction" at a convergent plate boundary
Good.
400
Send up someone with knowledge of the animal world.
Do your best impression of a cow. (NOTE: cows have four legs)
500
What causes Earthquakes?
Pressure from within the Earth
500
What is the name of the man who first proposed the theory of continental drift (plate tectonics). He is frozen in ice.
Alfred Wegener
500
The pacific plate moves 3.2 cm per year. How long will it take to move 2 kilometers?
(100 cm in a meter, 1000 meters in kilometer)
62,500 years
500
What causes tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle. Uneven heating in the mantle.
500
Send up a strong member of your team
Win against your teacher..........
Arm wrestle Mr. Shade = 500 points
Arm wrestle Mr. Hazel = 1,000 points