Faultless
(Boundary Lines)
(Boundary Lines)
The ocean known for having a geological 'ring of fire'
What is the Pacific Ocean
(must be specific with answer)
The scale that's often used to measure earthquakes (or Earthquake magnitudes).
What is the Richter Scale?
The name of the supercontinent from 270mya
What is Pangea?
The names of the 4 layers of the Earth
What is the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core & Inner Core?
The capital city of Poland.
What is Warsaw?
The type of boundary that moves from side to side in a shearing motion.
What is a transform boundary.
(100 points if strike/slip mentioned)
Name of the point directly above an earthquake.
What is an epicentre?
The name of a piece of a Earth's lithosphere capable of drifting.
What is a tectonic plate?
The asthenosphere is found in this layer.
What is the mantle?
What is the name of the AFL team Chris Fagan is coaching?
The Brisbane Lions.
The kind of faultline associated with a piece of rock moving up and creating an 'overhang' with it's band.
What is a reverse fault?
Two types of waves affiliated with body waves from an earthquake.
P (primary) and S (Secondary) waves
The name of the German who came up with continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener.
BOMB!
Give half your total points to the team that just went.
Beating a cheetah on land and a sailfish in the sea, this is the world's fastest animal?
What is the peregrine falcon?
(will pay falcon)
Occurs when a plate goes underneath another.
What is subduction? (also accept slab pull)
BOMB
Show of your skills, each member of the group show the class what would happen if someone was hit by a...
a) Transverse surface wave (side-to-side motion)
b) Rolling Wave (up and down)
Failure: Loose 800pts.
At lease 3 of 4 pieces of evidence for continental drift.
What is;
1. Continents fit together like a jigsaw
2. Ancient Geological features like mountains and deposits span across where the continents were connected.
3. Animal and plant fossils can be found where the continents were connected.
4. Animals and plants fossils are found in the wrong climate (e.g. tropical plant and animals fossils in Antarctica)
The individual states of both matter of the outer and inner core.
(they may or may not be the same)
What is
Outer - liquid
Inner - Solid?
The countries alongside Australia in Division D of the Soccer World Cup
USA, Turkey (Türkiye), Paraguay
The Himalayas are formed by these two plates colliding.
What is the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate.
The difference between magma and lava in regards to the volcano.
What is
Magma = underneath a volcano
Lava = has erupted from the volcano
?
The name of the fastest continental plate.
What is the Australian Plate
The percentage mass of the Mantle. (not volume which is 84%)
What is 67%
(will accept 2% either side)
Bomb!
State High is about to ban the following phrases to prevent teenage brain atrophy(rot).
Mr Pierce needs a member of your group to give an improvisational speech encouraging students to comply with the ban. The following phrases are banned;
- "Sigma sigma on the wall, who's the skibidiest of them all."
-"Homer drops his donut, d'oh."
-"Tripple T/ Tung Tung Tung Sahur."
Failure will result in a 1k point loss