Geosphere
Plate Tectonics
Cycles
Rock Cycle
Sphere Interactions
Wild Card
100
the name of the supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago
What is Pangaea?
100
the plate boundary that volcanoes are found
convergent
100
The process by which water vapor is changed into liquid water is called:
condensation
100
What are the three main types of rocks?
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY wind blowing sand around in a desert is which two spheres interacting
geosphere and atmosphere
100
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.
200
Letter D is what layer?
Inner Core
200
what is this plate boundary?
divergent
200
This gas, which plants use during photosynthesis, is a major component of the carbon cycle. What is it called?
carbon dioxide
200
Which type of rock is formed from cooled magma or lava?
Igneous
200
interaction between the biosphere and the hydrosphere
Organisms need water to survive
Organisms live in water
200
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.
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Two pieces 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
300
cracks in earth's crust typically formed on transform boundaries
A) Folds
B) Faults
C) Trenches
D) Ridges
faults
300
The way plants provide carbon to animals
Feeding
300
What two processes breaks rocks into sediments and transports them away?
Weathering and erosion
300
Describe an interaction between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere
Rain clouds found in the air
300
Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?
live
400
describe the Earth's crust
the rocky thinnest outermost layer of the earth
400
Where is the nearest divergent boundary to us?
A) The San Andreas Fault
B) The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
C) The Mariana Trench
D) The Himalayas(Mt.Everest)
Atlantic Ocean (mid ocean ridge)
400
the process of converting atmospheric N2 gas into ammonium (NH4+) through the bacteria found on leguminous plants
A) Denitrification
B) Nitrogen fixation
C) Nitrification
D) Ammonification
nitrogen fixation
400
Which two forces cause metamorphic rocks to form?
Heat and pressure
400
Sand dunes/wind erosion, mountains causing atmospheric uplift is what two sphere interacting
geosphere & atmosphere
400
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
a teapot
500
The crust and upper mantle of the Earth is called
A) Asthenosphere
B) Lithosphere
C) Mesosphere
D) Outer core
lithosphere
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
the convergence of oceanic crust sliding under a piece of continental crust
what is subduction zone
500
the physical and chemical breakdown of rocks that leads to the release of phosphate ions
weathering
500
What type of igneous rock cools slowly and forms large crystals deep in the Earth?
intrusive
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 word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
incorrectly
600
Flexible moving layer of the earth's layers
asthenosphere or mantle
600
Mt. Everest is found on what plate boundary
continental convergent boundary
600
The process where dissolved phosphates settle out of water and accumulate on the ocean floor, eventually forming sedimentary rock
sedimentation
600
What is compaction?
When layers of sediments are pressed together by the weight above them
600
Describe an interaction between the biosphere & the geosphere
Organisms living in caves
The ground supports us
600
What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
a river
700
Purpose of convection currents within the interior of the Earth
A) To produce Earth’s magnetic field
B) To move tectonic plates and recycle Earth’s crust
C) To cause earthquakes directly
D) To create the ozone layer in the atmosphere
To move tectonic plates and recycle Earth’s crust
700
DOUBLE JEOPARDY the separation of two continental pieces of crust results in this land formation
A) Ocean trench
B) Rift valley
C) Mid-ocean ridge
D) Mountain range
B) Rift Valley
700
the geological process of that moves rocks from ocean into the land
A) Subduction
B) Deposition
C) Uplift
D) Volcanic eruption
uplift
700
Process in which sediments are dropped or settle
A) Weathering
B) Erosion
C) Deposition
D) Compaction
Deposition
700
Describe an interaction between the hydrosphere and the geosphere
Rocks in a river eroding away
700
Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I?
A ton