JeopardyEarth’s
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Final Jeopardy
Plate Tectonic
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The thinner, denser type of crust.
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What is oceanic crust?
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The rigid layer is made up of the crust and upper portion of the mantle.
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What is the lithosphere?
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A method scientists use to indirectly study the interior of the Earth.
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What are seismic waves/Earth’s magnetic field?
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The dense layer of solid iron andnickel.
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What is the inner core?
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The most massive of all of Earth’s layers.
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What is the mantle?
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The direct transfer of energy through space.
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What is radiation?
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A type of heat transfer between materials that are in contact.
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What is conduction?
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Measure of how much mass there isin a volume of a substance.
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What is density?
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The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid (liquid or gas).
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What is convection?
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Convection currents are foundin these two layers of the Earth(be specific!)
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What is the outer core andmantle (asthenosphere)?
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The last supercontinent landmass.
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What is Pangaea?
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He was one of the first to propose the theory of Continental Drift.
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Who is Alfred Wegener?
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The reason the continental drift hypothesis was initially rejected by the scientificcommunity.
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What is no explanation for a forcethat can move continents?
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Any trace of an ancient organismthat has been preserved in rock.
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What is a fossil?
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All three main pieces of evidence that support continental drift.
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What is evidence from land features,fossils, and climate.
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Location of sea-floorspreading.
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What are mid-ocean ridges?
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Process by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle.
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What is subduction?
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Causes the ocean floor tomove like conveyer belts, creatingnew land.
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What is sea-floor spreading?
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The device used to map themid-ocean ridges.
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What is sonar?
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The three main pieces of evidence that support sea-floor spreading.
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What are evidence of molten material, magnetic stripes,
and drilling samples that show old and new rock?
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Separate sections of the lithosphere.
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What are tectonic plates?
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Type of boundary whereone plate can sink beneaththe other.
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What is a convergentboundary?
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Type of boundary where riftvalleys form.
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What is a divergentboundary?
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Type of boundary where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions.
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What is a transform boundary?
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The types of plates that collide to form large, folded
mountain ranges.
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What are continentalplates?
Final Jeopardy
He is known for discovering ocean ridges and proposing
the idea of sea-floor spreading.
Final Jeopardy Answer
Who is Harry Hess?