Science Jeopardy

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MS 20 JEOPARDY
Plate Tectonics
Minerals
Rocks
Marine sediment
Seawater
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Final Jeopardy
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Plate Tectonics - 100

• ANSWER This hot belt surrounding the pacific
  ocean is known for 80 of the worlds volcanoes
  and earthquakes
• QUESTION What is the ring of fire

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Plate Tectonics - 200

• ANSWER The fastest of earthquake waves
  characterized by push-pull motion
• QUESTION What is a P wave?

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Plate Tectonics - 300

• ANSWER A fault type caused by sea-floor
  spreading under ocean ridges. It produces horsts
  and grabens.
• QUESTION What is a normal fault?

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Plate Tectonics - 400

• ANSWER This zone is characterized by
  compression and has shallow, intermediate, and
  deep-focus earthquakes.
• QUESTION What is a subduction zone?

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Plate Tectonics - 500

• ANSWER This fault type is commonly
  perpendicular to ocean ridges. One is tearing
  California apart.
• QUESTION What is a transform fault?

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Minerals - 100

• ANSWER It occurs naturally, is crystalline and
  has a fairly definite chemical formula
• QUESTION What is a mineral?

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Minerals - 200

• ANSWER This term refers to the regular pattern
  of atoms within a mineral
• QUESTION What is a crystal?

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Minerals - 300

• ANSWER Quartz and feldspar
• QUESTION What are the most common minerals in
  California beach sand? Or What are felsic
  minerals?

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Minerals - 400

• ANSWER This term describes the quality of light
  reflecting from the surface of a mineral
• QUESTION What is a luster?

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Minerals - 500

• ANSWER The color of a powdered mineral
• QUESTION What is streak?

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Rocks - 100

• ANSWER This item is an aggregate of minerals
• QUESTION What is a rock?

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Rocks - 200

• ANSWER A rock formed by slow cooling within
  Earths crust
• QUESTION What is a plutonic/intrusive rock?

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Rocks - 300

• ANSWER A dark, heavy rock containing abundant
  iron and magnesium
• QUESTION What is a mafic rock?

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Rocks - 400

• ANSWER a rock formed at Earths surface by
  erosion, transportation, and deposition and
  lithification of sediment
• QUESTION What is a sedimentary rock?

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Rocks - 500

• ANSWER A poorly sorted sedimentary rock with
  angular fragments
• QUESTION What is breccia?

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Marine Sediments - 100

• ANSWER Lithogenous, biogenous, hydrogenous and
  cosmogenous
• QUESTION What 4 categories are used to classify
  sediments by origin?

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Marine Sediments - 200

• ANSWER The depth at which calcium carbonate
  input equals dissolution
• QUESTION What is the CCCD?

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Marine Sediments - 300

• ANSWER A size distribution scale ranging from
  boulders to cobbles to pebbles to sand, silt and
  clay
• QUESTION What is the Wentworth scale?

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Marine Sediments - 400

• ANSWER A marine sediment containing at least
  30 biological material
• QUESTION What is an ooze?

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Marine Sediments - 500

• ANSWER A coccolithophore
• QUESTION What is microscopic plant which leaves
  behind calcium carbonate fossils on the sea
  floor?

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Seawater - 100

• ANSWER An atom with a charge or a - charge
• QUESTION What is an ion?

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Seawater - 200

• ANSWER Covalent bond
• QUESTION What type of chemical bonding occurs
  within a water molecule?

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Seawater - 300

• ANSWER 105 degrees
• QUESTION What angle occurs between hydrogen
  atoms in the water molecule? Or What is the
  angle away from an epicenter at which shadow
  zones begin?

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Seawater - 400

• ANSWER High surface tension, adhesion,
  cohesion
• QUESTION What properties make water weird? (all
  due to the hydrogen bond)

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Seawater - 500

• ANSWER 540 calories/gram/degree C
• QUESTION What is waters latent heat of
  vaporization?

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FINAL GEOJEOPARDY

• ANSWER Roy G Biv
• QUESTION Who is the visible light spectrum
  named after?