Physics
Stored energy, such as a ball sitting at the top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
Stored energy in a human or object that can be transformed to Kinetic energy.
What is potential energy?
Our ancient supercontinent.
What was Pangea?
The sudden shaking of the ground caused by pressure in the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
The large, moving pieces of Earth’s outer shell (lithosphere) are known as these.
What are tectonic plates?
The energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The total energy within a system caused by the random motion of its atoms and molecules
What is thermal energy?
What 4 planets did the sun and 20 proto planets in event 2 make
What is Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
What is an explosive volcano eruption?
This term refers to the rigid outer shell of the Earth, which is broken into the tectonic plates, encompassing the crust and the uppermost mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.
What is inertia?
The total energy within a system caused by the random motion of its atoms and molecules
What is kinetic energy?
Heavy metals like iron and nickel sank to the center of the Earth to form this layer.
What is the core?
A broad, gently sloping volcano which is typically not explosive.
What is a shield volcano?
Plate tectonics is the theory that rigid lithospheric plates move slowly over this underlying, semi-molten layer.
What is the asthenosphere?
This is the process where water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid water.
What is condensation?
This term describes the movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler one.
What is heat?
is is the term for the invisible magnetic field that surrounds Earth and protects us from solar winds.
What is the magnetosphere?
What is a cinder cone?
This famous Californian fault is a classic example of a transform boundary.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This is the dense, central core of an atom where most of its mass is found.
What is the nucleus?
In 2026, scientists still define this as the lowest possible temperature where particles have zero kinetic energy.
What is absolute zero?
The most common gas in our atmosphere today is nitrogen, but Earth's first atmosphere was mostly made of these two light gases.
What are hydrogen and helium?
An earthquake has caused low-level, minor damage and that no significant casualties are expected
What is a green pager?
This German scientist proposed the theory of continental drift in 1912.
Who is Alfred Wegener?