Out of this World
The movement of a moon around a planet or a planet around its sun.
What is revolution or orbit?
This is the smallest unit of an individual element.
What is an atom?
Waves that vibrate in the same direction they are moving.
What is a longitudinal or compressional wave?
The innermost, densest layer of the earth.
What is the inner core?
This process allows plants to store solar energy in sugars.
What is photosynthesis?
The movement of the ocean governed by the gravity of the moon and, to a lesser extent, the sun.
What are the tides?
In this state density is the lowest because the atoms are spread farthest apart.
What is a gas?
This type of wave can travel even in a vacuum.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
This type of plate boundary has the plates sliding past one another and results in a high number of earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
Because of their ability to create food energy from the sun's energy plants commonly serve this role in an ecosystem.
What is a producer?
The region of space that is an ideal distance from the sun to allow for the presence of liquid water.
What is the habitable or Goldilocks zone?
Removing heat energy from a gas will cause it to become this state of matter.
What is a liquid?
This wave property tells us how often the wave vibrates in a given time period and is measured in Hertz.
What is frequency?
This process occurs at convergent boundaries and represents the destruction of old crust.
What is subduction?
The process by which flowering plants reproduce; often facilitated by insects or wind.
What is pollination?
This is the moon phase when a lunar eclipse is obsevable.
What is a full moon.
A change in matter that creates a brand new substance and cannot be reversed.
What is a chemical change?
We experience this property of sound waves as volume.
What is amplitude?
This type of rock is often formed near subduction zones by the intense heat and pressure of the moving plates.
What is metamorphic rock?
The portion of the stamen that produces pollen for the flower.
What is the anther?
This planet has the longest orbital period (year) of any in our solar system.
What is Neptune?
Heat transfer via conduction works the best in this state of matter.
What is a solid?
Transparent objects allow for this interaction where light bends as it passes into a material of different density.
What is refraction?
These earthquake waves are longitudinal and travel the fastest.
What are primary or p-waves?
The transportation system in a vascular plant used to move water from the roots up to the leaves.
What are xylem?