Forces/Motion
A term that refers to the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
The term used for the transfer of thermal energy in a fluid by the movements of warmer and cooler fluid?
What is convection?
A repeating disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space.
What is a Wave?
The smallest particle of an element that retains the properties of the element.
What is an atom?
The substances that result from a chemical reaction?
What are products?
For any solution, the substance being dissolved.
What is a solute?
long-term average weather conditions for an area
What is climate?
The spinning of Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
A term that refers to the gravitational force exerted on an object.
What is weight?
The term for the transfer of thermal energy by collisions between the particles that make up matter.
What is conduction?
A system of satellites, ground monitoring stations, and receivers that determines your location at or above Earth's surface.
What is GPS?
Any characteristic of a material that you can observe without changing the identity of the substance.
What is a physical property?
The starting substances in a chemical reaction.
What are reactants?
When nuclei decay and emit particles and energy.
What is radioactive?
A natural mixture that can contain minerals, rock fragments, and volcanic glass bound together.
What is a rock?
The motion of Earth in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
What is revolution?
The term for an attractive force between any two objects that depends on the masses of the objects and the distance between them.
What is gravity?
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves, such as light and microwaves.
What is radiation?
Waves that are created by vibrating electric charges and composed of vibrating electric and magnetic fields.
What are electromagnetic waves?
Any characteristic of a material that can be observed during a process that produces one or more new substances.
What is a chemical property?
When atoms gain, lose, or share electrons, an attraction forms between the atoms, pulling them together to form a compound. This attraction is called...
What is a chemical bond?
A nucleus splits into smaller nuclei
What is nuclear fission?
The removal of surface material through the process of weathering.
What is erosion?
The movement is used to measure a 24-hour day.
What is one complete turn of Earth on its axis?
Two forces are acting on an object and pushed in the same direction, the net force would be determined by...
What is adding forces together?
The law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred from one form to another.
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics?
Matter through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
The atomic number of an atom is equal to.
What is the number of protons in the nucleus?
The type of reaction that occurs when two or more substances combine to form another substance.
What is a synthesis reaction?
Small nuclei join to form a larger nucleus
What is nuclear fusion?
A naturally occurring inorganic solid with a crystalline form.
What is a mineral?
The tilt of Earth's axis as it revolves around the Sun.
What causes seasons?
A term for the force that opposes the sliding motion of two surfaces that are touching each other.
What is friction?
The law that states that energy spontaneously spreads from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration?
What is the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
Matter moves perpendicular to the wave's direction.
What is a transverse wave?
In a neutral atom, the subatomic particles that are always present in equal numbers.
What are protons and electrons?
The type of reaction that occurs when one substance breaks down to form two or more substances.
What is a decomposition reaction?
A solution that contains all of the solute that it can hold at a given temperature.
What is a saturated solution?
The process that involves the physical and chemical breakdown of materials on Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
The galaxy that contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion describes the relationship between these quantities.
100 Newtons of force pushes a 25kg box 11 meters. The work done on the box.
What is 1,100 Joules?
Matter moves in the same direction as the wave.
What is a longitudinal wave?
A certain atom of boron has 5 protons and 6 neutrons. The mass number is...
What is 11?
The term for a substance that speeds up the rate of reaction without being changed itself.
What is a catalyst?
Long chains of monomers.
What are polymers?
a mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, water, and air that is capable of supporting plant life.
What is soil?
An area in space that is so dense that nothing can escape its pull of gravity
What is a black hole?
Newton's 3rd Law of Motion states that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts a force on the first that is...
What is equal in strength and opposite in direction?
An object with a mass of 30 kgs is placed on a hill top with a height of 80m. The potential energy of the object. (Gravity = 9.8)
What is 23,520 Joules?
Waves used by radar.
An electron dot diagram includes the chemical symbol for an element surrounded by dots representing...
What are valence electrons?
The term for a substance that slows down or stops a reaction?
What is an inhibitor?
A small molecule that can combine with itself repeatedly to form a long chain called?
What is a monomer?
An increase in the average temperatures of Earth's near-surface air and oceans.
What is global warming?
The most widely accepted theory about the origin of the universe?
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Newton's 1st Law of Motion.
What is an object moves at a constant velocity unless an unbalanced force acts upon it?
The kinetic energy of a 150kg object moving at a speed of 15m/s.
What is 16,875 Joules?
The change in wave frequency due to a wave source moving relative to an observer or an observer moving relative to a wave source.
What is the the Doppler effect?
A charged particle that has either more or fewer electrons than protons.
What is an ion?
Nuclei with the same number of protons and different numbers of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
The difference between Acids and Bases?
Acids add H+ ions and Bases add OH- ions
A natural process in which certain gases in the atmosphere warm a planet as they absorb and emit infrared radiation.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Particles within a nebula exerted gravitational forces on each other, causing the nebula to contract and the temperature to increase.
What was the first stage in the formation of the Sun?