Matter
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Matter with a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The layer of Earth made mostly of solid rock beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
The change from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
Energy an object has because it is moving.
What is kinetic energy?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Rocks are grouped into these three major types.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
A change that does not create a new substance.
What is a physical change?
The state of matter whose particles move most freely.
What is a gas?
Stored energy due to position or condition.
What is potential energy?
A large body of air with similar temperature and moisture characteristics.
What is an air mass?
The theory explaining that Earth's outer shell is broken into moving plates.
What is plate tectonics?
A change that produces one or more new substances.
What is a chemical change?
The process of a solid changing directly into a gas.
What is sublimation?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed according to this law.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
These occur when energy is released suddenly along faults in Earth's crust.
What are earthquakes?
Matter is made up of tiny particles called these.
What are atoms?
Increasing temperature generally causes gas particles to do this.
What is move faster?
The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is heat?
This severe weather event forms over warm ocean water and has sustained rotating winds.
What is a hurricane?
Molten rock beneath Earth's surface is called this.