MATTER & ITS INTERACTIONS
This is the amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
This Earth system includes all water on Earth, including oceans and groundwater.
What is the hydrosphere?
This is the change in position of an object over time.
What is motion?
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This type of energy resource comes from ancient plants and animals buried underground.
What is a fossil fuel?
This property describes a substance’s ability to reflect light.
What is reflectivity?
This step of the water cycle occurs when water vapor cools and changes into liquid droplets.
What is condensation?
This force can cause an object to start moving, stop moving, or change direction.
What is a force?
This is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This term describes cutting down trees faster than they can regrow, harming ecosystems.
What is deforestation?
This term describes how well a material allows heat or electricity to pass through it.
What is conductivity?
This process occurs when sediment is dropped or settles in a new location.
What is deposition?
This is the original source of most energy for life on Earth.
What is the Sun?
Warm air rising and cool air sinking creates this movement of air in the atmosphere.
What is convection?
This type of pollution occurs when harmful substances enter rivers, lakes, or oceans.
What is water pollution?
Two or more atoms joined together form this.
What is a molecule?
Water stored beneath Earth’s surface is called this.
What is groundwater?
This type of energy is stored energy, such as energy in food or a stretched rubber band.
What is potential energy?
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This type of resource can naturally replenish over a short period of time, such as wind or sunlight.
What is a renewable resource?
When a substance spreads evenly throughout a liquid without forming a new substance, this process has occurred.
What is dissolving?
This process moves sediment from one place to another by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is erosion?
The faster an object moves, the greater this type of energy it has.
What is kinetic energy?
This factor describes how high a location is above sea level and can affect climate.
What is elevation?
This term describes the surroundings where living and nonliving things interact.
What is the environment?