Force and Energy 1
A force of attraction between any two objects that have mass.
What is energy?
Very large chunks of floating, slow-moving ice
What are glaciers?
Electromagnetic waves that can be seen by the human eye
What are visible light waves?
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Flat-topped, raised area that has steep slopes or cliffs on one or more sides
What is a plateau?
Average patterns of an area over a period of time
What is climate?
Forces that act on each other but are not touching.
What are non-contact forces?
Land consisting of marshes and swamps
What are wetlands?
Current conditions in the atmosphere
What is weather?
This changes in outer space, but this does not change.
What is weight?
What is mass?
The process of breaking down rock and Earth
What is weathering?
This measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
Causes the change in the dependent variable.
What is an independent (test) variable?
The process of moving broken down rock and Earth
What is erosion?
These clouds typically produce thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Explain how magnetic force works on a magnet.
What is they have a north and south pole? Opposites attract. Like forces repel.
The process of leaving sediment in one place
What is deposition?
These clouds are thin and whispy and often are produced in nice weather
What are cirrus clouds?
Distance divided by time
What is speed?
Two landforms that can be found in the cyrosphere
What are ice caps, glaciers, snowy areas, frozen lakes, frozen rivers?
Three different types of precipitation
What are rain, hail, sleet, snow, and freezing rain?
Factors that affect strength of forces
What are material and location?
This is changing the cryosphere
What is climate change?
The boundary where masses of different temperature and humidity collide
What are fronts?
Factors that affect kinetic energy
What are mass and speed?
The transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
These winds blow from east to west
What are trade winds?
An educated guess or predicted answer to your posed question.
What is a hypothesis?
Three ways that energy is transferred
What are radiation, convection, and conduction?
This is the most far out part of Earth's atmosphere
What is the exosphere?
A unit of joule measures these.
What are potential and kinetic energy?
The part of the Earth that contains all living organisms
What is the biosphere?
This person developed the climate zone map
Who is Wladimir Koppen?
Newton's third law of motion.
What is for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction?
The five spheres that make up Earth's system
What are biosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?
The water cycle and weather happen here
What is the troposphere?