Chapter 8
a storage location for water
What is a reservoir?
What is the temperature gradient?
protons+neutrons
What is atomic mass?
formed because of convection of molten iron and nickel metals in the core
What are magnetic fields?
Power(watts/jules)=Work(joules) / time(seconds)
What is calculating power?
body of water with a current
What is a stream?
warm air goes up and cool air sinks to take its place
What is convection?
intermolecular bond that forms when one side of polar molecules attract to others: example-water
imaginary line that runs through the North and South pole
What is the axis?
the ability to cause change, examples: electrical, chemical, thermal, and radiant
What is energy?
result of density difference in water masses, because of different temperatures and salinities
What is thermohaline circulation?
middle layer of the atmosphere contains the ionosphere and magnetosphere
What is the mesosphere?
the process of rocks undergoing compaction, weathering, heat, and pressure
What is the rock cycle?
theory that everything revolves around the sun
What is the heliocentric model?
KE=1/2mass x velocity
What is calculating kinetic energy?
global wind patterns, the rotation of the earth, and the shape of the ocean basins causes this
What are surface currents?
invisible energy waves that travel through air, glass, and even space
What are electromagnetic energy waves?
dissolves less stable minerals in a rock
What is chemical weathering?
occurs when the sun is closest to one of the poles
What is a solstice?
the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object
What is temperature?
daily rise and fall of sea level at any given point- primarily caused by gravitational attraction of the moon
What are tides?
a windless rainy zone near the equator
What is an equinox?
amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a 1kg of some material by 1degree Celcius
What is specific heat?