Written by 7th graders
What kind of heat transfer goes to your body when you touch something?
Radiation
Vinegar is more or less acidic than water
It is more acidic than water
What type of plate boundary creates volcanoes
Convergent plate boundaries.
What is the vocabulary word we use to measure the amounts of waves that are recorded in one second.
The frequency
How does the United States use biomass everyday?
We burn biomass to generate heat and electricity.
What's the unit you use to measure waves
Hertz (Hz)
This type of tectonic plate boundary is when the more dense oceanic plate sinks below the continental plate.
Subduction Zone on a convergent boundary.
What type of landform is created when the tectonic plates spread apart.
Mid Ocean ridge
What do we call plates that are moving away from each other?
Divergent
Hawaii is this type of volcano
Hot Spot Volcano is the reason it formed. Some are cinder cones and some leave a caldera.
What kind of heat transfer goes through liquids?
Convection
The _________________ is the surface location directly above the earthquake.
epicenter
The phase of the moon that we see during a solar ecplipse.
What causes convection currents?
Cool air sinks and warm air rises.
True or False: Elastic energy and be both kinetic and potential types of energy.
True
Describe mechanical energy
Mechanical energy is the energy that is possessed by an object due to its motion or due to its position
Volcano's that are not active are said to be what?
Dormant
The phase of the moon a couple of days after it reaches 100% illumination.
Waning Gibbous
What is energy?
ENERGY IS THE ABILITY TO DO WORK
This planet has the most moons
What is Saturn
What are the two types of mechanical energy
Kinetic and potential energy
The reasons you can hear screams in space.
There is no medium for the sound to vibrate off of.
True or False:
Mt. Rainier is a stratovolcano
True
Longitudinal waves have energy that travels ______
to the direction of the wave. (Pick from parallel or perpendicular)
Einstein said there can only be one thing that is constant. What is it?
The speed of light.