The Earth and Plate Tectonics
A large, giant ocean wave normally caused by an earthquake
What is a tsunami?
A type of rock that forms from cooled magma
What is igneous rock?
An object in motion will remain in motion. An object at rest will remain at rest, unless an outside force acts upon it.
What is Newton's first law?
The negatively charged part of the atom
What is an electron?
The command center for the cell
What is the nucleus?
The beginning point of an earthquake
What is the epicenter?
The process of breaking down rocks
What is weathering?
Stored energy that an object has because of its position
What is potential energy?
A substance that only contains one kind of atom
What is an element?
The jelly-like substance inside the cell
What is the cytoplasm?
The idea that the Earth is made up of moving plates
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
The area of sediment rich in nutrients that is deposited at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
A force that keeps an object from moving against another object
What is friction?
The man who developed the classification system for elements
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
The green pigment found in plants cells
What is chlorophyll?
The type of wave the moves in a rolling motion
What is a Rayleigh wave?
When gravity pulls a combination of water and sediment down a hill
What is mudflow/mudslide?
Resistance to change in motion
What is inertia?
Horizontal rows on the periodic table of elements
What are periods?
The scientist to first see cells under a microscope
Who is Robert Hooke?
Breaks in the Earth's surface along which rock can move
What are faults?
Forms when layers of unmelted snow have compacted into ice
What is a glacier?
The velocity (speed in a given direction) and mass of an object
What is momentum?
The reaction in which molecules combine to form a new substance
What is a chemical reaction?
What are Protists?