Unit 1 light & matter
How does light travel
In straight lines
What is conduction?
Heat being transferred through items that have contact.
What is an atmosphere?
A mixture of gases that surround a planet.
What is the name for the old super continent?
Pangea was what the super continent was called.
What are these? Brain, Spinal Cord, & Nerves
Nervous System Organs
What is a phenomenon?
Something that cannot be easily explained.
What is condensation?
The water droplets that form on a surface from the air around the surface
What is a runoff?
Water that is supposed to be soaked into the ground is not and then flows across the Earth's surface.
Who proposed the idea of the Continental Drift in the early 1900's?
Alfred Wegener composed the idea of the drift.
Which body system supports an organism's body, protects its internal structures, and allows the body to move
Skeletal System
What does light do when it hits an ordinary mirror?
Does it reflect or transmit?
Light reflects off of an ordinary mirror.
When solids have more contact with each-other what happens?
Their temperature changes based on how much contact the solids have.
What is the purpose of an Anemometer?
To measure wind speed.
What do you call the thin outermost layer of the Earth?
Which cell organelle is known as the Control Center
The Nucleus
How do we see objects?
Light bounces off the object, and that light travels into your eyes
What has to happen in order for evaporation to take place?
Molecules of liquid water have to gain enough energy to break free and go up into the air as water vapor.
What is happening in a climate zone?
Similar temperatures and precipitation are happening throughout that area.
What do you call the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Transform boundary
What is a stimulus?
A change in an internal or external environment that makes the nervous system react
How does the one-way mirror allow both light to transmit and reflect?
the special film used on the one-way mirror
Where do the water droplets that form on the outside of a glass of ice water come from?
They come from the water vapor in the air around the glass.
How is it possible for hail to form and fall from the sky when the temperature in the air near the ground outside is not cold enough for water to freeze?
Hail forms high up in a cumulonimbus clouds where it's below freezing and updrafts can hold it up until it builds up over time.
What do you call long, narrow depression formed at divergent boundaries
Rift valleys
Which cell organelle is known as the power house?
The Mitochondria