Earth Science

Layers of the Earth

100

The only liquid layer of the Earth

Outer Core

200

The two layers of the Earth that aren't rock

The cores

300

What layer of the Earth is comprised of ductile, malleable and pliant, molten rock? 

What is the Asthenosphere (you learned some new synonyms, yah!)

400

This is the layer of the Earth that contains all of the tectonic plates

lithosphere

500

Explain the process that creates the Earth's magnetic field inside the outer core.

Convecting iron swirling around creates these magnetic fields. I mean, what is?

Plate Tectonics

100

Two plates that are sliding past each other

what is transform boundary

200

Mid ocean ridges are created at these boundaries

Oceanic to Oceanic Divergent boundaries

300

The Himalayan Mountains are the result of what type of plate boundary interaction?

Continental to Continental convergent

400

In the type of boundaries that create subduction zones, this type of crust is the most dense. 

Oceanic crust

500

This is the process by which new plate material is created on the Earth's surface

Sea floor spreading

Land Features

100

Continental to Continental convergent boundaries create these features

mountains

200

Oceanic and Continental convergent boundaries create these features.

Subduction zones/ trenches

300

Cinder cone, composite, dome, shield and caldera are all words associated with these. 

volcanoes

400

Daily Double (decide as a team how many points you would like to wager)

The question: Continent to Continent divergent boundaries often create these features. 

500

The location on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake occurs

What is the epicenter?

Alfred Wegener

100

This was his theory. (either the name or what it was)

What is continental drift (the idea that the continents were once together and have since moved)

200

This was the evidence that Alfred Wegener did not have to back up his theory. 

How the continents were moving. 

300

This is the three pieces of evidence that we have talked about that Alfred Wegener used to back up his theory. 

- Fossil evidence (similar species found on opposite sides of the Atlantic)
- Mountain ridges (same rock formations meaning the mountains on either side of the Atlantic are the same mountains)

- The continents just kind of look like puzzles. uh, what is?

400

This is where Alfred Wegener died and was buried (not something on the test though)

What is Greenland?

500

What was Alfred Wegener's job before becoming interested in Geology? (not on the test)

What is a meteorologist? 

Kelso's Choice

100

This is how earthquakes give us hints as to what is inside the Earth. 

What is Seismic waves can be measured traveling through the different material layers at different rates which can be measured using seismographs located throughout the world, the utilization of which sprang up around the 1950s when the prevalence of nuclear testing lead nations to develop a means of detecting large scale vibrations. 

200

The San Andreas fault in California (located at the boundary between the Juan De Fuca plate and the North American pate) is this kind of plate boundary. 

Transform

300

An area of high volcanic activity not near a plate boundary

What is a hotspot

400

Explain the process of Convection moves the plates

material in the mantle being heated and expanding rises, then cools down and sinks, moving the lithosphere with it. 

500

This is why the rocks at the bottom of the ocean near the middle of the ocean tend to be much younger than the rocks near the shores.

Sea floor spreading and divergent boundaries and all that ya'll.