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Earth's Layers
Earth's Layers 2
Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Earth's Layers 3
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100
The correct order of Earth's layers, starting with the surface?
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
100

The name of the sphere that includes all living things

biosphere

100
This is the force people feel when two plates jerk into a new position?
What is an earthquake?
100

Which of Earths layers are as hot as the sun?

What is Inner Core

100

Who is a person that studies the Earth?

What is a geologist?

200
The thinnest layer of earth.
What is the crust?
200

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When evidence is from rock samples?

What is direct evidene?

200
Name a CONSTRUCTIVE force of nature.
What is a volcano?
200

What bests describes hot rock rising and cool rock sinking, or the reason for plate tectonics?

What is convection

200
Rock the makes the oceanic crust.
What is the basalt?
300
Hot but solid rock.
What best describes the mantle?
300

What is the energy that drives all of Earth's systems?

The sun

300
What do geologists use to me sure earthquakes?
What are seismic waves
300

Which layer of Earth contains tectonic plates?

What is Lithosphere

300

What happens the deeper you go into Earth's interior?

What is pressure increases and temperature increases?
400
Dense solid metal ball.
What is the inner core?
400

What are the three ways heat transfers?

What are conduction, convection and radiation

400

What is the ability to work or cause change?

What is energy?

400

What are convection currents involved in?

What is the production of new rocks?

400

Earth's magnetic field results from movements in this.

What is the outer core?

500
This is how scientists learn about the mantle and core of the Earth.
What are samples from drilled holes 7 miles deep or blasted out of volcanoes.
500
Heating and cooling of fluid, changes in fluids density and force of gravity?

What are the forces that combine to set convection currents?

500

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What do seismic waves reveal?

What is waves reveal where the makeup or form of rocks change?

500

JEOPARDY DOUBLE

Name Earth's Physical/Mechanical layers in order of depth.

What is the Lithosphere, Asthenosphere,  Mesosphere, Outer Core, and Inner Core

500

Most geologists think that the movement of Earth's plates is caused by this.

What is the convection currents in the mantle?