Geosphere
Plate Tectonics
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere & weather
Sphere Interactions
Wild Card
100
the name of the supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago
What is Pangaea?
100
What is the name of the large plates that make up Earth's surface?
plate tectonics
100
The thinnest and outermost layer of the atmosphere
exosphere
100
The process by which water vapor is changed into liquid water is called:
condensation
100
What sphere includes all the water on Earth?
hydrosphere
100
What has keys but can't open doors?
piano
200
What layer is made of liquid iron & nickel?
outer core
200
the plate boundary that volcanoes are found
convergent
200
78% of Earth's Atmosphere
Nitrogen
200
Letter B is what form of heat transfer (direct contact)
conduction
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY wind blowing sand around in a desert is which two spheres interacting
geosphere and atmosphere
200
A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?
They weren’t. Survivors don’t need to be buried.
300
Double Jeopardy Letter D is what layer?
Inner Core
300
what is this plate boundary?
divergent
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY layer of the Earth where most weather occurs
Troposphere
300
most of Earth's freshwater is found here
Icecaps and glaciers
300
interaction between the biosphere and the hydrosphere
Organisms need water to survive
Organisms live in water
300
A man shaves many times during the day, but at the end of the day, he still has a beard. How is this possible?
The man is a barber.
400
Name a piece of evidence that supports the theory of continental drift
The puzzle like “fit” of South America and Africa
Fossils of land animals found oceans apart
Rocks of similar types and age found oceans apart
Glacial Evidence
400
typically formed on transform boundaries
faults
400
Reason all the gasses on the Earth don't float away
gravity
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Most of accessible freshwater is found here
groundwater
400
Describe an interaction between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere
Rain clouds found in the air
400
Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?
live
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY describe the Earth's crust
the rocky thinnest outermost layer of the earth
500
the separation of two continental pieces of crust results in this land formation
rift valley
500
important layer found in the stratosphere and its purpose
ozone layer; protects us from the sun
500
When a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass causing thunderstorms
a cold front
500
Describe an interaction between the biosphere and the atmosphere
We need air to breathe
Plants need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis
Birds travel through the air
500
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
a teapot
600
Flexible moving layer of the earth's layers
asthenosphere or mantle
600
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
describe a subduction zone
the convergence of oceanic crust and continental crust or where one plate slides under another
600
List the order of the layers of the atmosphere from lowest to highest
troposphere --> stratosphere --> mesosphere --> thermosphere --> exosphere
600
describe a high pressure system
clear and fair weather
600
Describe an interaction between the hydrosphere and the geosphere
Rocks in a river eroding away
600
What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
incorrectly
700
Purpose of convection currents within the interior of the Earth
Causes the movement of tectonic plates
700
Mt. Everest is found on what plate boundary
continental convergent boundary
700
when a warm air mass slowly overtake a cold air mass causing showers
warm front
700
the ocean's main function
temperature regulation
700
Describe an interaction between the biosphere & the geosphere
Organisms living in caves
The ground supports us
700
What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
a river