Jeopardy

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Jeopardy!

• Unique Earth

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Unique Earth
Systems and Cycles
Grab bag
Rock n Roll
Earth Basics
Layer-ific
Loca-(tion) motion?
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Basics - 100

• What is the shape of the Earth?
• Oblate Spheroid
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Basics -200

• How many structural zones does Earth have?
• Earth has 5 structural zones (L,A,M,O,I)
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Basics -300

• What are the two things that determine how strong
  gravity will pull on an object?
• The mass of the object, and the distance it is
  from the other object
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Basics -400

• What is the name for the large body of water that
  covers the Earth, and how much of the Earth does
  it cover?
• Global Ocean, 70
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Basics -500

• Compare the relative lengths of the polar
  diameter of the Earth with the equatorial
  diameter of the Earth.
• The Polar diameter is shorter than the equatorial
  diameter of the Earth.
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Systems/Cycles -100

• What CANNOT move into or out of a closed system?
• Matter
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Systems/Cycles -200

• Name an internal energy source, and an external
  energy source for Earth.
• Gravity/radioactive decay, the sun
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Systems/Cycles - 300

• What is transpiration in the water cycle?
• Plant sweat or the evaporation of water from
  plants leaves.
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Systems/Cycles - 400

• What are the four systems (spheres) in and around
  the Earth?.
• Hydrosphere - water
• Biosphere - life and organic matter
• Geosphere - rocks
• Atmosphere - air
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DAILY DOUBLE 500

• Describe one of the following cycles Nitrogen,
  Carbon or Phosphorus
• Answers will vary depending on cycle. See page
  36-37 in book for description.
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Layer-ific - 100

• What are the three compositional layers of the
  Earth from INSIDE to OUTSIDE.
• Core, Mantle, Crust
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Layer-ific - 200

• This layer makes up the crust and the rigid upper
  part of the mantle
• Lithosphere
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Layer-ific - 300

• This is the plastic structural layer of the
  Earth.
• Asthenosphere
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Layer-ific - 400

• Tectonic plates are like rafts that float on the
  ____________.
• Asthenosphere
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Layer-ific - 500

• Describe the layer and its special characteristic
  of the Earth that gives us the magnetosphere.
• The liquid outer core is molten iron and nickel
  that churns and produces the magnetosphere.
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Loca(tion)motion - 100

• Lines that run vertically around the earth are
  called ___.
• Meridians/longitude lines.
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Loca(tion)motion - 200

• Where do longitude lines intersect?
• At the north and south poles
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Loca(tion)motion - 300

• Each degree is broken into how many minutes?
• 60
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Loca(tion)motion - 400

• What is the only line of latitude that makes a
  great circle?
• The equator
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Loca(tion)motion - 500

• Why doesnt a compass point directly to the North
  Pole?
• The geographic and geomagnetic poles are located
  in slightly different places?
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Rock n Roll - 100

• What type of rock is formed from hardened magma?
• Igneous
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Rock n Roll - 200

• If a rock is changed by pressure and temperature,
  what kind of rock will it become?
• Metamorphic
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Rock n Roll - 300

• Describe the process that creates sedimentary
  rock.
• Rock and organic matter break down, erode, and
  get cemented into sedimentary rock.

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Rock n Roll - 400

• What does Bowens Reaction Series describe?
• The relative temperatures that minerals in rocks
  will melt/crystallize
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DAILY DOUBLE 500

• What does a physically stable rock resist?
• physically stable rocks resist breaking apart
  into smaller pieces.

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Grab Bag -100

• What is the lower boundary of the crust called?
• The Moho (mohorovicic discontinuity)
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Grab Bag - 200

• If you stand on a mountain, is your weight more
  or less than in a nearby valley? Why?
• Less - you are further from the center of Earth
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Grab Bag - 300

• State the two parts of the law of thermodynamics
• Energy cannot be created or destroyed, and energy
  spreads out over time.
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Grab Bag - 400

• What two things fix nitrogen?
• Lightening and Bacteria
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Grab Bag - 500

• Compare and contrast the distance between two
  lines of latitude and two lines of longitude
• Lines of latitude never change, lines of
  longitude get closer together at the poles
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