Energy, Heat & Motion
What type of energy is the energy of motion?
What is kinetic energy?
What type of wave is a sound wave?
What is a longitudinal wave?
What is the outermost layer of Earth called?
What is the crust?
What galaxy contains our solar system?
What is the Milky Way?
What process allows plants to make food using sunlight?
What is photosynthesis?
What are the three methods of heat transfer?
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
What is the highest point of a wave called?
What is a crest?
What type of rock forms when magma cools and solidifies?
What is igneous rock?
What phase occurs when the Moon is completely illuminated?
What is a full moon?
What are organisms that make their own food called?
What are autotrophs?
What force pulls objects toward Earth?
What is gravity?
What determines the pitch of a sound?
What is frequency?
What process breaks rocks into smaller pieces without changing composition?
What is mechanical weathering?
What theory explains the universe began from a hot, dense state?
What is the Big Bang Theory?
What small openings in leaves allow water to leave the plant?
What are stomata?
According to Newton’s Third Law, every action has an equal and what?
What is opposite reaction?
What occurs when light bends as it moves between different media?
What is refraction?
What is the movement of rock and soil from one place to another called?
What is erosion?
What planet is tilted on its side?
What is Uranus?
What type of organism is acellular and must reproduce inside a host cell?
What is a virus?
What law states energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed forms?
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
What equation relates velocity, wavelength, and frequency?
What is v=λf?
What currents in the mantle help drive plate tectonics?
What are convection currents?
What is the explosive death of a massive star called?
What is a supernova?
What process allows bacteria to reproduce by splitting into two identical cells?
What is binary fission?