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Energy & Motion Concepts
Energy & Motion Concepts
The ability to do work or cause change
What is energy?
This is a disturbance that transfers energy through a medium.
What is a mechanical wave?
This is the rate of flow of electrons moving past a fixed point in an electrical circuit.
What is electric current?
This term refers to rock that behaves like a solid but can slowly flow under pressure.
What is plastic rock?
This is the layer of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This type of energy is stored due to an object’s position or condition.
What is potential energy?
This type of wave moves particles of the medium perpendicular to the direction the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
Charging an object by rubbing two items together so that electrons transfer from one item to the other.
This is a semi-solid, plastic-like layer beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
This is the process by which certain gases trap heat that radiates from Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This is done when a force is applied to an object and the object moves in the direction of the force.
In this wave type, particles of the medium move parallel to the wave’s direction.
What is a longitudinal wave?
This circuit does not have a complete connection between the two sides of the power source.
What is an open circuit?
This is the process that moves sediment.
What is erosion?
This is the most abundant gas in the air.
What is nitrogen?
This form of energy is associated with lightning.
What is electrical energy?
This happens when an object travels faster than the speed of sound.
What is supersonic speed?
This is a material's ability to oppose the flow of electric current.
What is resistance?
Scientists observe this major phenomenon to learn about the makeup of the Earth's interior.
What are earthquakes?
This is a measure of the energy of random motion in a substance's molecules.
This law states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another or transferred.
Mechanical waves need __________ to travel through as they transfer energy.
Like charges ______________, while opposite charges _______________.
What is repel and attract?
This is the sum of all the water on the planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
This atmospheric gas is important for the greenhouse effect.
What is Carbon Dioxide?