Motion, Forces & Newton’s
A force that causes an object’s motion to change.
What is an unbalanced force?
Substances made of only one type of atom.
What are elements?
The spinning of Earth on its axis, causing day and night.
What is rotation?
Heat transfer by direct contact between particles.
What is conduction?
Factors in an ecosystem that are nonliving, such as water and sunlight.
What are abiotic factors?
This law states an object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
What is Newton's First Law?
When new substances with new properties form.
What is a chemical change?
The path Earth takes around the Sun, causing seasons.
What is revolution?
Heat transfer in fluids where warm material rises and cool sinks.
What is convection?
A relationship in which organisms struggle for the same limited resource.
What is competition?
The product of mass and acceleration.
What is net force?
The principle that atoms cannot be created or destroyed during a reaction.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
A diagram that classifies stars by temperature and luminosity.
What is the HR Diagram
Heat transfer through electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
The base of all food chains that captures energy from the Sun.
What are producers?
The graphical representation showing constant speed as a straight diagonal line.
What is a distance–time graph?
A reaction where the mass of reactants equals the mass of products.
What is a balanced chemical equation?
The two forces that keep planets in orbit.
What are gravity and inertia?
The condition where heat no longer flows because temperatures are equal.
What is thermal equilibrium?
A process where ecosystems recover after a disturbance.
What is secondary succession?
When equal and opposite forces act on an object, resulting in no movement change.
What are balanced forces?
A combination of two or more elements chemically bonded together.
What is a compound?
Galaxy type shaped like a flattened disk with spiral arms.
What is a spiral galaxy?
The quantity calculated by dividing mass by volume.
What is density?
An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival.
What is adaptation?