A fun way to review after you finish learning about Earth Science in the 5th grade: This jeopardy covers: Alternative energy sources, plate tectonics, weathering, erosion, deposition, rocks and minerals, destructive forces

1. Earth

2. Alternative
Energy
Sources
Plate
Tectonics
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Rocks
Minerals
Destruction
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3. $100
• What do you call the energy produced by
moving water?

4. Correct!
• Hydroelectric ---- $100

5. $200
• What do you call energy produced by the
heat of the Earth?

6. Correct!
• Geo-thermal--$200

7. $300
• Wind energy turns the blades of windmills
which turn ________ to create electricity.

8. Correct!
• Turbines or
Generators--$300

9. $400
• What device turns solar energy into
electricity?

10. Correct!
• Solar Cells or Solar Panels
• --$400

11. $500
• What two types of resources make the best
alternative energy sources?

12. Correct!
• Renewable and Inexhaustible-$500

13. $100
• Which layer of Earth is cracked into large
moving pieces called plates?

14. Correct!
• Lithosphere--$100

15. $200
• Which plate do we live on?

16. Correct!
• North American Plate--$200

17. $300
• When 2 continental plates collide, what
typically forms?

18. Correct!
• Folded Mountains--$300

19. $400
• What occurs when two plates rub against
one another?

20. Correct!
• Earthquakes $400

21. $500
• What is the name given to the
supercontinent that scientists believe once
existed on Earth?

22. Correct!
• Pangaea--$500

23. $100
• What is the main force of weathering on
Earth?

24. Correct!
• Water--$100

25. $200
• What happens to rocks that are weathered?

26. Correct!
• They are broken down (or worn down,
worn away, smoothed).--$200

27. $300
• Once rocks are broken into small bits called
sediment, what happens to the sediment?

28. Correct!
• It is eroded.--$300

29. $400
• What are the 2 main causes of erosion on
Earth?

30. Correct!
• Wind
• Water
• --$400

31. $500
• When sediment is dropped at the mouths of
rivers, new land is built up. What do you
call the new land at the mouths of rivers?

32. Correct!
• Delta--$500

33. $100
• The changing of one rock into another kind
of rock is called the ________________.

34. Correct!
• Rock cycle--$100

35. $200
• What is the only kind of rock that can
contain fossils?

36. Correct!
• Sedimentary--$200

37. $300
• Which type of rock has a name that means:
Born of Fire?

38. Correct!
• Igneous--$300

39. $400
• Describe how a metamorphic or igneous
rock can turn into a sedimentary rock.

40. Correct!
• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition
• --$400

41. $500
• What 2 processes can turn any other kind of
rock into metamorphic rock?

42. Correct!
• Heat
• Pressure
• --$500

43. $100
• What do you call hot, molten rock that is
underground?

44. Correct!
• Magma--$100

45. $200
• What do you call hot, molten rock when it
reaches Earth’s atmosphere or hydrosphere?

46. Correct!
• Lava--$200

47. $300
• Name 2 other things besides hot, molten
rock that can come out of a volcano.

48. Correct!
• Ash
• Poisonous gases
• Chunks of rock
• Steam
• --$300

49. $400
• What do you call the cracks along which
earthquakes occur?

50. Correct!
• Faults

51. $500
• What instrument records the intensity of
earthquakes?

52. Correct!
• Seismograph--$500