Matter and Recourses
What is the definition of matter? And what are the states of matter?
What is anything that has mass and takes up space (volume).
Liquid
Gas
Solid
What is sound?
What is light?
What is a form of mechanical energy produced and transmitted by vibrations?
What is radiant energy that can be seen by the human eye?
What is a simple circuit?
What is a open circuit?
What is a closed circuit?
Simple Circuit: A circuit consisting of a battery, wire, and bulb.
Open Circuit: Does not allow electricity to flow through a circuit.
Closed Circuit: Allows electricity to flow through a circuit
What is energy vs. work?
Energy:
The ability to do work or to cause change. Energy can take many forms, but it cannot be created or destroyed.
Work:
A force acting on an object, causing the object to move in the direction of the force.
What is it meant by Earth System?
What are tectonic plates?
What are faults?
What is composed of interrelated parts, including the atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?
Tectonic Plates: Large continent sized moving pieces under the Earth’s crust.
Faults: The boundaries of tectonic plates.
What are examples of a mixture and a solution?
What are trail mix and Kool-Aid for example
What is a medium? How does sound travel through a medium?
What is matter that sound or light waves travel through.
Examples: liquid, solid, or gas
What are compression waves?
What is are conductors vs an insulators?
Conductors: Materials that allow electricity to flow
through them, such as metals.
Insulators: Materials that do not allow electricity to flow through them, such as plastic.
Describe thermal energy, radiant energy, mechanical energy, and electrical energy.
Thermal: Energy responsible for temperature. Also known as heat energy.
Radiant: Also known as light energy.
Mechanical: The energy of motion, or the energy of an object that moves.
Electrical: The power of charged particles to cause an action or movement.
Define the following:
Atmosphere
Geosphere
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere: Layer of gas that surrounds the Earth. (air)
Geosphere: The portion of Earth that includes rock and minerals. (solid Earth)
Hydrosphere: The total amount of water on Earth.
Biosphere: The part of Earth that supports life and all living things. (organisms)
What is mass? What are Atoms?
What is the amount of matter an object has? What are articles in matter that are too small to see with the human eye?
Describe transparent, translucent, and opaque.
Transparent: Materials that allow all light to pass through.
Translucent: Materials that allow some light to pass through.
Opaque: Materials that allow no light to pass through.
What is static electricity?
What is the transfer of negatively charged particles
between materials?
What is kinetic energy vs. potential energy?
Kinetic: Energy in motion.
Potential: Stored energy an object has because of its position, shape, or state
What are the layers of the Earth?
Crust: The outermost layer of Earth.
Mantle: A layer of Earth made of hot flowing
rock between the crust and outer core.
Outer Core: The outer layer of the core that is made of liquid iron and nickel.
Inner Core: The inner layer of the core that is made of solid iron and nickel.
What is a natural resource that cannot be replaced after it is used up called? What is the word for using less?
What is a nonrenewable energy resource?
What is conserve?
Describe wavelength vs. frequency
What is pitch?
What is The distance between two corresponding points on a wave vs. the number of waves passing a given a designated time.
Bonus question: What is a crest vs. a trough?
What is how high or low a sound is.
What is a simple electromagnet?
What is a closed circuit created by a wire around an iron-bearing metal, creating a magnetic field?
What is net force vs. force?
Net force: The combination of all the forces acting on an object.
Force: Any push or pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change direction.
Bonus: what is friction?
What are convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries?
Convergent boundaries: Plates that move toward each other (collide), creating mountains or trenches.
Divergent boundaries: Plates that move away from each other, creating mid-ocean ridges or volcanoes.
Transform boundaries: Plates that slide past each other, creating earthquakes.
What are resources that can be replaced naturally and used again called?
What are renewable energy resources?
What is the visible Spectrum vs. white light?
What is the range of colors that are determined by wavelength vs. the sum of all colors?
Bonus question: what is a tool that separates white light into individual colors?
What form of electrical energy is being transferred when using the following items:
Lamp
Fan
Toaster
Lamp: radiant energy
Fan: mechanical energy
Toaster: thermal energy
What is motion vs. speed?
Motion: An object’s direction and speed.
Speed: How fast an object is moving.
What is weathering vs. erosion vs. deposition?
Weathering: Rocks and other materials are broken down into fragments or sediments chemically and physically.
Erosion: Sediments and other materials being moved by wind or water.
Deposition: Sediments and other materials being dropped into a new location.