This document outlines the rules and gameplay for a trivia game called Multi-Q. Players or teams answer multiple choice questions on topics related to earth science to earn points. Questions range from 10 to 50 points and cover topics like the layers of the earth, minerals, landforms, weathering and erosion, plate tectonics, and earth in space. The game tracks scores and allows players to choose questions from different categories and difficulty levels.

1. Multi-Q Introduction Question & Answer Review Game M U L T I - Q ! M U L T I - Q ! Welcome to … Skip Rules

2. Game Rules M u l t i – Q R u l e s Points are collected as an individual or as a team (if playing as a team). However, in team play, each player must answer questions without help from teammates. MORE RULES 

3. Game Rules M u l t i – Q R u l e s If a question is answered correctly , add those points to the score. The opposing team (or individual) may now chose a question. MORE RULES 

4. Game Rules M u l t i – Q R u l e s If a question is answered incorrectly, the score does not change . The opposing team (or individual) may now chose a question. MORE RULES 

5. Game Rules M u l t i – Q R u l e s This game does not support automatic scoring. Please assign a scorekeeper to keep track of points for both teams or players. GET READY TO START 

6. Choose from the following topics You will choose questions from the following six topic areas: CLICK TO VIEW TOPIC AREAS 

7. TOPIC 1 Earth Science What do you know about…

8. TOPIC 2 What do you know about… Earth’s Surface

9. TOPIC 3 What do you know about… The Moving Earth

10. TOPIC 4 What do you know about… Minerals

11. TOPIC 5 What do you know about… Earth in Space

12. TOPIC 6 What do you know about… Earth in Space con’t

13. MultiQ Choices FINAL QUESTION 50 50 50 50 50 50 40 40 40 40 40 40 30 30 30 30 30 30 20 20 20 20 20 20 10 10 10 10 10 10 Earth in Space con’t Earth in Space Minerals The moving Earth Changes in the Earth Surface of the Earth

14. Return Whoops! Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

15. 1:10 What layer of the earth is the thickest? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 1 f o r 1 0 p o i n t s …

16. 1:10 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … The Mantle CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 10

17. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

18. 1:20 A_____is a crack in the earth’s surface. CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 1 f o r 2 0 p o i n t s …

19. 1:20 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Fault CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 20

20. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

21. 1:30 A______is a non-living solid matter from the earth. CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 1 f o r 3 0 p o i n t s …

22. 1:30 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Mineral CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 30

23. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

24. 1:40 An_______is the shaking of the ground caused by the contact of two transform boundaries. CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 1 f o r 4 0 p o i n t s …

25. 1:40 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … EARTHQUAKE!!! Run!! CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 40

26. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

27. 1:50 What is one of the main differences between a rock and a mineral. CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 1 f o r 5 0 p o i n t s …

28. 1:50 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … A mineral is composed of only one type of material. A rock is made of multiple minerals. CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 50

29. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

30. 2:10 ______is the moving of weathered rock by wind, water, and ice. CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 2 f o r 1 0 p o i n t s …

31. 2:10 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Erosion CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 10

32. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

33. 2:20 What is deposition? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 2 f o r 2 0 p o i n t s …

34. 2:20 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … The dropping off or depositing of sediments by wind, water, or ice CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 20

35. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

36. 2:30 What is one method of preventing soil erosion? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 2 f o r 3 0 p o i n t s …

37. 2:30 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Erosion Blankets, planting trees, windbreaks, partial tilling CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 30

38. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

39. 2:40 Mountains, hills, ravines, and basins are all examples of what? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 2 f o r 4 0 p o i n t s …

40. 2:40 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Landforms CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 40

41. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

42. 2:50 What are the three agents of weathering? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 2 f o r 5 0 p o i n t s …

43. 2:50 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Water, ice, wind CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 50

44. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

45. 3:10 What are three examples of physical properties? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 3 f o r 1 0 p o i n t s …

46. 3:10 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Smell, texture, size, color, hardness CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 10

47. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

48. 3:20 What mineral is harder – fluorite or quartz? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 3 f o r 2 0 p o i n t s …

49. 3:20 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Quartz, do you know hard it is on the Moh’s Hardness scale? CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 20

50. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

51. 3:30 What mineral did we test that had a chemical reaction to vinegar? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 3 f o r 3 0 p o i n t s …

52. 3:30 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Calcite CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 30

53. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

54. 3:40 What is Luster? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 3 f o r 4 0 p o i n t s …

55. 3:40 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Luster is the way a mineral reflects light. CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 40

56. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

57. 3:50 Why are some minerals more expensive than others? T o p i c 3 f o r 5 0 p o i n t s … CLICK TO CHECK

58. 3:50 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Some are more scarce than others. CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 50

59. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

60. 4:10 How does Ice weather rocks? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 4 f o r 1 0 p o i n t s …

61. 4:10 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Liquid water enters in the cracks of the rocks and when it freezes, the water expands further cracking the rocks! I knew you knew it! CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 10

62. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

63. 4:20 What does it mean if you have converging boundaries? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 4 f o r 2 0 p o i n t s …

64. 4:20 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … That 2 plates are colliding or crashing into each other CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 20

65. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

66. 4:30 What is a tide? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 4 f o r 3 0 p o i n t s …

67. 4:30 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … The rise and fall of the surface level of the ocean CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 30

68. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

69. 4:40 What is a current? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 4 f o r 4 0 p o i n t s …

70. A River-like flow of water in the ocean

71. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

72. 4:50 What celestial body most greatly affects our tides on earth? T o p i c 4 f o r 5 0 p o i n t s … CLICK TO CHECK

73. 4:50 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … The moooon! CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 50

74. 5:10 An imaginary line through a spinning object is called? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 5 f o r 1 0 p o i n t s …

75. 5:10 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … An axis CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 10

76. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

77. 5:20 Each time the earth makes one full spin on its axis, it makes one… CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 5 f o r 2 0 p o i n t s …

78. 5:20 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … rotation CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 20

79. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

80. 5:30 The path of an object around another object Is called its ? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 5 f o r 3 0 p o i n t s …

81. 5:30 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Orbit CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 30

82. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

83. 5:40 Put the following objects in order from biggest to smallest: Sun, Moon, Earth CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 5 f o r 4 0 p o i n t s …

84. 5:40 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Sun – Earth – Moon Nice work! CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 40

85. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

86. 5:50 The movement of an object around another object is called? T o p i c 5 f o r 5 0 p o i n t s … CLICK TO CHECK

87. 5:50 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Revolution CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 50

88. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

89. 6:10 How does the Earth’s rotation cause days? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 6 f o r 1 0 p o i n t s …

90. 6:10 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Half of the earth is always facing the Sun, and the constant spinning causes night and day! CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 10

91. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

92. 6:20 Does the moon have any gravity? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 6 f o r 2 0 p o i n t s …

93. 6:20 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Yes it does, just less than the Earth – it only has 1/6 the Earth’s gravity! CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 20

94. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

95. 6:30 Why does the southern hemisphere have winter while the northern hemisphere has summer? And visa versa CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 6 f o r 3 0 p o i n t s …

96. 6:30 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Because the Earth is tilted, if one hemisphere is leaning towards the sun, the other, or opposite, is leaning away from the Sun causing Winter! CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 30

97. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

98. 6:40 What is the force that holds us on Earth? CLICK TO CHECK T o p i c 6 f o r 4 0 p o i n t s …

99. 6:40 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … Gravity CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 40

100. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

101. 6:50 What is happening if the moon comes between the Earth and the Sun? T o p i c 6 f o r 5 0 p o i n t s … CLICK TO CHECK

102. 6:50 Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … A solar eclipse CLICK TO PLAY AGAIN 50

103. Return Click here to return to the Multi-Q Game Board

104. Bonus Question B O N U S Q U E S T I O N Congratulations! If you answer the Bonus Question correctly, your team receives double the points assigned to this question. TO THE BONUS QUESTION 

105. Directions for Last Question D I R E C T I O N S Team members may consult on the final question of this game . TO THE FINAL QUESTION  RETURN TO GAME BOARD

106. Each team should now place their point wagers. Click the bar, below, when you are ready to proceed.

107. If the answer you write on the answer sheet is INCORRECT, you must subtract the wagered amount from your ending point score to determine your final score.

108. If the answer you have written on your answer sheet is CORRECT, you may add your team’s wagered amount to your current point score. TO THE FINAL QUESTION 

109. Last Question In the book, A Year Down Yonder, What is the banker’s name? CLICK TO CHECK T H E F I N A L Q U E S T I O N

110. Last Answer T h e c o r r e c t a n s w e r i s … L.J. Weidenbach CLICK TO END THE GAME ADD OR SUBTRACT WAGERED AMOUNTS

111. Turn in team score Add up your team score. Good Luck on the actual quiz. T H A N K S F O R P L A Y I N G ! DON’T FORGET TO STUDY & REVIEW ON YOUR OWN!