Earth Systems Jeopardy (Geosphere / Hydrosphere / Atmosphere)

Geosphere

100

Earth's outer core is made of _______.

A. Liquid iron and metal

B. Liquid lava

C. Plastic

 A. Liquid metal

200

Plates that move towards each other:

A. Divergent

B. Strike slip

C. Convergent

C.Convergent  

300

What are the two main factors that cause a rock to change?

A. Mass and depth

B. Heat and pressure

C. Movement and heat

B.Heat and pressure

400

This theory is supported by fossil evidence, mountain ranges, 'puzzle pieces' and plate tectonics.

A. Pangea

B. Continental drift

C. Plate tectonics

B.Continental drift theory

500

The upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.

A. Lithosphere

B. Ionosphere

C. Asthenosphere

C. Asthenosphere

Plate tectonics

100

Two plates that move away from each other are:

A. Convergent

B. Divergent

C. Convection

B. Divergent

200

 Material in the mantle move and circulate because of:

A. Convection

B. Subduction

C. Lithosphere

A. Convection

300

Sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate:

A. Convection

B. Transform

C. Subduction

C. Subduction. 

400

Area contains between 750 and 915 active or dormant volcanoes, around two-thirds of the world total. Where the plates were believed to be torn apart.

A. Subduction

B. Mid ocean ridge        C. Ring of fire

C. Ring of fire

500

How many major place are there?

A. 19

B. 7

C. 9

B.7

Volcanoes

100

What is liquid rock inside the Earth called?

A. Magma

B. Lava

C. Mantle

A. Magma

200

 What is the pocket of magma under the surface called?

A. Magma vent

B. Magma Crater

C. Magma chamber

C. magma chamber

300

Thin weak area in the Earth’s crust that magma seeps through:

A. Chamber

B. Hot spot

C. Hot spring

B. Hot spot

400

 Naturally hot water that spring up typically heated by underground volcanic activity:

A. Hot springs

B. Hot creek

C. Hot chamber

A. Hot spring

500

This is an underwater mountain range formed by tectonic plates pulling apart:

A. San Andreas fault

B. Mid ocean ridge

C. Marianna trench

B. Mid ocean ridge

Earthquakes

100

This is a major geological fault line located in California, where the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate meet.

A. Mid ocean ridge

B. San Andreas fault

C. Ring of Fire

B. San Andreas fault

200

 The process of how species compositions change in an ecological community over time:

A. Ecological Extinction

B. Ecological Succession

C. Ecological plates

B. Ecological Succession

300

Type of succession is the natural process by which a pond or lake, gradually changes into a terrestrial one over thousands of years, as it fills with sediment and organic matter

A. Primary succession

B. Secondary succession    C. Aquatic succession

C. Aquatic succession

400

This is a process started by an event (like a  forest fire, earthquake, hurricane, etc.):

A. Primary succession

B. Secondary success

C. Aquatic succession

B. Secondary succession

500

What is the name of the volcano which caused so much destruction in Washington state:

Mt St. Helens

Random

100

ll the newest ocean floor comes from underwater:

A. Earthquakes

B. Tsunamis

C. Volcanoes

C. Volcanoes

200

Because the oceanic plate is less dense that the continental plates it causes:

A. Adhesion

B. Subduction

C. Earthquakes

B. Subduction

300

Fully grown community:

A. Pioneer community

B. Colonizers community

C. Climax community

C. Climax 

400

The first organisms in a new primary succession community:

A. Colonizers

B. Climax

C. Pioneers

C. Pioneer

500

On Mt St Helens, what was the first plant to recover and come back to like?

A. Sirius

B. Lupin

C. Worm tail

B. Lupin