Waves and Light
A wave that doesn’t need a medium to travel through
What is a electromagnetic wave?
A state of matter that expands to fill its container and has a indefinite shape and volume.
What is a gas?
When heat transfers to a object until its temperature is the same
What is thermal equilibrium?
The repeated cycling of water through the Earths systems.
What is the water cycle?
A body of air that takes the characteristics over the region it forms over.
What is a air mass?
Light bending when it travels through a different medium
What is refraction?
A state of matter that has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
The flow of energy from a warmer to a colder place due to difference in temperature
What is heat?
Water vapor changing into a liquid again.
What is condensation?
A front that brings periods of heavy rain and thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
The number of waves passing a point per second.
What is frequency?
The type of energy something has when it’s moving.
What is kinetic energy?
What is a conductor?
Plants releasing water vapor into the atmosphere through their stomata’s
What is transpiration?
A meter that measures moisture
What is a hydrometer?
The amount of distance between two waves.
What is wavelength?
The law that states energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation?
Hotter air rising, and cold air sinking and moving in a cycle.
What is convection?
When surface water soaks into the ground and is then stored as ground water.
What is infiltration?
Hot dry air masses that form in the summer over dry deserts in tropical latitudes.
What is a continental tropical air mass?
A type of lens that makes things bigger as light travels through.
What is a concave lens?
The transfer of light energy to heat energy.
What is absorption?
Heat energy that is transferred from the Sun to the Earth.
What is thermal radiation?
When solid snow and/or ice turns directly into water vapor/gas
What is sublimation?
A system with sinking air and brings clear skies.
What is a high pressure system?