Show:
Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Weathering,Erosion & Deposition
Rocks
Earth's Structure
Miscellaneous
100
Double Jeopardy: Complete the analogy: Seamount is to Island as magma is to __________
What is lava?
100
Chemical and Physical
What are the 2 types of weathering?
100
Igneous, Metamorphic, & Sedimentary
What are the 3 types of rocks?
100
The earth is made up of 4 layers starting from the surface.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
100
Most new kitchen have this igneous rock in them.
What is granite?
200
This measures the amount of energy released during an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
The Grand Canyon is an example of this type of weathering.
What is water weathering?
200
This has to occur in order for rocks to become metamorphic
What is heat and pressure?
200
The mantle is made up molten liquid that has this consistency.
What is syrup?
200
What rocks are made of.
What are minerals?
300
Ring of Fire
What is the area around the pacific plate where many volcanoes occur?
300
Rocks and sediments that are carried down stream by water.
What is Erosion?
300
When Ms. Crocker gets a pedicure they use this igneous rock to scrub her feet.
What is pumice?
300
Earth's crust is like a giant puzzle. Scientist who study this "puzzle" are studying.....
What is plate tectonics?
300
A super continent that existed over 2 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
400
__________ usually occur at divergent boundaries, but they can sometimes be found at convergent boundaries due to subduction.
What are volcanoes?
400
Double Jeopardy: The continental rise occurs because of this process.
What is deposition?
400
Double Jeopardy: I found a rock on the playground, but I am not sure how I can identify it. It has plant remains. It's shiny, and when I dropped it got a jagged crack. Now I can identify the rock because I know 3 ____________, which are ________,_________, and _________
What properties? What are presence of fossils, luster, and cleavage?
400
The inner core is extremely hot but it is made of 2 solid metals.
What are iron and nickel?
400
Plant or animal remains that can help tell the age of a rock.
What are fossils?
500
Movement at this type of plate boundary causes earthquakes.
What is what is strike slip or transform plate boundaries?
500
Acid rain is in example of this type of weathering.
What is chemical Weathering?
500
Wind weathering blew sand and pebbles over a metamorphic rock creating layers which changed the rock into this new type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
Similar to what we know about the ocean, as depth increases this also increases. Unlike the ocean, as depth increase in the earth's structure this also increases rather than decreasing.
What is pressure and heat?
500
Double Jeopardy: Water gets into the cracks of a rock freezes causing it to break apart. Spring comes and the broken rock pieces are carried away by the water from the melting ice. These sediments are deposited at the base of a waterfall.
What is weathering, Erosion, and Deposition?