jeopardy! 8 th grade earth science mr. t
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Jeopardy! 8 TH Grade Earth Science Mr. T. Jeopardy!. Minerals. Volcanoes. Earthquakes. Plate Tectonics. Rocks. Stuff. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Jeopardy!8TH Grade Earth Science
Mr. T
Jeopardy!Minerals Volcanoes Earthquakes
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Perform a scratch test to determine this mineral property.
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What is the HARDNESS test?
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Category A - 200
The color of a mineral’s powder.
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What is streak?
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Category A - 300
The 5 characteristics of all minerals.
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What is solid, chemical composition, crystal structure, naturally occurring, and inorganic?
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Category A - 400
The basic characteristics of minerals that help us identify them.
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What is streak, cleavage/fracture, crystal structure, hardness, color, luster, special properties?
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Category A - 500
A solid in which the atoms are arranged in a pattern that repeats again and again.
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What is a crystal?
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Category B - 100
Composite Volcano.
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What is formed by alternating explosive and quiet lava outpourings, and its form is a broad base with steep summit?
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Shield Volcano.
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What type of volcano is built entirely from layers of runny lava from quiet eruptions, causing it to have a gentle slope?
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Cinder Cone Volcano.
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What type of volcano has a very steep hill and is built entirely out of pyroclastic material?
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Category B - 400
Pyroclastic material.
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What are cinders, ash and bombs?
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Pahoehoe and aa.
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What is the Hawaiian name for the two types of lavacaused by a quiet eruption ?
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Earthquake.
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What is the shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth’s surface ?
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Category C - 200
Seismic wave.
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What is a vibration that travels through Earth carrying energy released during an earthquake?
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Epicenter.
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What is the point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s focus?
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Category C - 400
Fault.
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What is a break in Earth’s crust where slabs of rock slip past each other?
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Magnitude.
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What is the measurement of an earthquake’s strength based on seismic waves and movement along faults?
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Category D - 100
CLAMOIC. Crust Lithosphere Asthenosphere Mesosphere Outer Inner Core
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This acronym list the layers of the Earth?
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Category D - 200
Granite.
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What rock makes up the continental crust?
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Destructive force.
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What force slowly wears away mountains and other features on the surface of the Earth? Examples are wind water and weathering?
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Plate Tectonics.
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Subduction.
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The process where the oceanic crust dives under the continental crust and the crust melts back into the mantle?
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Category D - 500
Plate.
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What is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of oceanic and continental crust?
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Category E - 100
Igneous rock that was formed inside of earth.
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What is an intrusive igneous rock?
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Extrusive igneous rock.
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What kind of rock is formed from lava on Earth’s surface?
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Category E - 300
Metamorphic rock.
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What existing rock has gone through changes through heat and pressure?
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Sedimentary rock.
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What kind of rock has formed from particles of small rocks, sand and plant parts and cemented together through pressure?
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Category E - 500
A material that is formed from the elements of oxygen and silicon.
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What is Silica?
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Category F - 100
Sea-floor spreading.
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What process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor?
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Variable.
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What is the factor that can change in an experiment, the one that you compare against the control ?
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Category F - 300
Sill.
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What is a slab of horizontal volcanic rock formed when magma squeezes between layers of rock?
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Category F - 400
Rift Valley.
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What is a deep valley that forms where two plates move apart?
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Geothermal energy.
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What is cheap, clean energy from water or steam that has been heated by magma, and used by people?
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Double Jeopardy!Minerals Volcanoes Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics Rocks Stuff
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Not formed from living things or the remains of living things.
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What is inorganic?
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Category AA - 400
The term that describes how a mineral reflects light from its surface.
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What is luster?
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Category AA - 600
This scale ranks minerals from softest to hardest.
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What is Mohs Hardness scale?
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This mineral rates a 10 on Mohs Hardness scale.
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What is a diamond?
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Category AA - 1000
This mineral has uses in technology, optometry, is used in watches, radios, and electricity.
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What is quartz?
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Category BB - 200
Active.
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What is the term for a volcano that is currently erupting, or has shown that it will erupt soon?
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Ring of Fire.
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What do we call the circular area along the pacific plate boundary?
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Hot Spot.
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What is the place called where magma has found a weak spot in the middle of a plate, and magma escapes through the crust?
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Caldera.
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What is the place where the summit of the volcano collapses following the emptying of the magma chamber, leaving a huge hole?
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Volcanic Neck.
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What is the name for the hardened magma in a volcanic pipe, when all the outer layers of the volcano have worn away through erosion and weathering?
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P-Wave.
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What is the first seismic wave to arrive following an earthquake?
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Tsunami.
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What is triggered by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor?
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Seismograph.
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What is an instrument that measures ground movement during an earthquake?
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Shearing.
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What is one of the stresses causing an earthquake, where slabs of rock push in opposite directions?
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Focus.
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What is the place called where an earthquake occurs, deep in the Earth’s crust?
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Category DD - 200
A massive subduction zone, shaped like a ring, responsible for earthquakes, tsunamis, and stratovolcanoes.
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What is the Ring of Fire?
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Category DD - 400
Earthquake monitors measure the changing shape of seismic waves to determine the layers of the earth.
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How did scientists construct the interior model of the earth?
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When subduction zone run beneath a continental plant and cause stress that gets released in a seimsic wave.
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What causes intraplate quakes?
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By building disaster safe houses and using early warning systems.
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What are current ways scientists use to keep people safe in an earthquake or tsunami?
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They are waves with an energy focus on the surface. They also shake your house left to right and up and down.
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Why are surface waves so destructive.
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Particles of sand and clay are deposited by running water.
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What is sedimentary?
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EE.
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Sedimentary rock deposits help us support evolution because living things dies, get buried, and fossilized.
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What type of stone supports evolution and why?
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Igneous rock is formed from volcanic activity and cools quickly.
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What type of rock is considered volcanic?
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Metamorphic rock is created deep with in the earth.
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What type of rock is created deep within the earth using intense pressure?
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When an rock breaks smoothly.
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What is cleavage?
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Minerals are made of elements (pure) rocks are made of many minerals.
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How are rocks different from minerals?
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The rate at which rocks and minerals cool.
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What determines crystal size?
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Color, luster, and crystal size.
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How can you identify a mineral?
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FF.
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Each step up is about 33x larger. So two steps would be 66x greater.
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Why is a 4 on the magnitude scale so much more sever than a 2?
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Volcanoes that have high gas content, high viscosity, and silica.
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Why are stratovolcanoes so dangerous?
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Final Jeopardy!
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New types of quakes like Slow Slip Tremors, Domino Quakes, Cluster Quakes and core samples.
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What new discovers are helping scientists better predict quakes.