light and matter
light travels faster than anything else
How fast does light travel
energy that is transferred from one body to another as the result of a difference in temperature.
What is heat?
evaporates, condenses, and precipitates.
what is the water cycle?
Igneous rock, Sedimentary rocks, and Metamorphic rocks.
what kind of rocks are there?
environmental phenomena that have the potential to impact societies and the human environment
What is a natural hazards?
Matter can emit light, absorb light, or transmit light.
What can matter do?
a type of kinetic energy
what is thermal energy?
Artic air masses
Why does get so cold in the north
divergent, convergent, and transform.
What are three?
when wind variations with height support rotation in the updraft.
how is a tornado formed?
small particles called photons
What is light made out of?
the movement of heat from one substance or material to another
What is heat transfer?
Because they have warmer ocean currents
why does Myrtle Beach get more rain than other beaches
Crystallization, cooling, weathering, erosion, and metamorphism.
What is the rock cycle.
often beginning as a tropical wave—a low pressure area that moves through the moisture-rich tropics, possibly enhancing shower and thunderstorm activity.
How is a hurricane formed?
Light can be absorbed into any matter
How do matter and light interact?
a form of energy that an object or a particle has by reason of its motion
What is kinetic energy?
sunny, humid, and hot.
What is it like before it hails
The heat from radioactive processes within the planet's interior causes the plates to move, sometimes toward and sometimes away from each other.
how do plate tectonics move?
when winds strengthen to the point where they're able to lift grains of sand off the ground and blow them through the air.
How is a sandstorm formed?
when photons from incident light hit atoms and molecules and cause them to vibrate.
How does matter absorb light?
Energy associated with the motion of an object is called kinetic energy. Energy stored in an object due to its position is called potential energy
What is the difference between kinetic energy and potential energy?
cold, icy, and slick
What is it like after it hails?
a natural substance composed of solid crystals of different minerals that have been fused together into a solid lump.
What are rocks?
sudden vertical displacement of the ocean floor is what typically sets a tsunami in motion. As the ocean floor rises or falls, so too does the water above it.
How is a tsunami formed?