Water Cycle
This is the energy source that drives (powers movement of) the water cycle.
What is the sun/solar energy?
At what boundary are fault lines created?
What is transform boundaries?
When thermal energy is added to a substance, the particles do this.
What is move faster?
A rock is broken into sediment, transported by a river, deposited in a lake, compacted into rock, buried deep underground, melted into magma, and then cooled. This sequence describes this Earth system process.
What is the rock cycle?
A student changes the temperature of water and records how long it takes an ice cube to melt. The melting time is this type of variable.
What is the dependent variable?
A cold soda can is taken outside on a humid day. Tiny water droplets form on the outside of the can because of this water cycle process.
What is condensation?
Most earthquakes occur near these locations.
What are plate boundaries?
A student places an ice cube in warm water. The ice melts because thermal energy moves from the ______ to the ______.
What is the warm water to the ice?
What is at the bottom?
As particles gain thermal energy, what happens to their motion?
What is they move faster?
Liquid water changes into water vapor during this process.
What is evaporation?
When two continental plates collide, they often form these landforms.
What are mountains?
Two cups contain hot water. One cup has twice as much water as the other. The larger cup stays warm longer because it contains more of this.
What is thermal energy?
A rock is broken into sediment, buried, compacted, and cemented together. It becomes this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
A scientist changes only the amount of water in an experiment while keeping everything else the same. This changed factor is called the ________.
What is the independent variable?
Name the 4 forms of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
At this type of boundary, new land is formed and mid ocean ridges are created.
What is a divergent boundary?
Two objects touch each other. One object gains thermal energy while the other loses the same amount. This demonstrates what scientific law?
What is the law of conservation of energy?
These two processes can break rocks into smaller pieces and change rock/land shape without changing what they are made of.
What is weathering and erosion?
A student notices that a canyon has become deeper over thousands of years because of moving water. Which two Earth processes caused this change?
What are weathering and erosion?
Energy from the Sun causes liquid water to become water vapor. When that vapor later forms clouds, what two water cycle processes have occurred?
What are evaporation and condensation?
Scientists believe plates move because of convection currents occurring in this layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
A metal spoon and a wooden spoon are placed in hot soup. After 5 minutes, the metal spoon feels hotter. This provides evidence that metal is a better ______ of thermal energy.
What is conductor?
A fast-moving river carries large rocks, while a slow-moving river carries only small particles. This suggests that erosion depends on this property of moving water.
What is speed (velocity)?
This plate boundary can offset rock layers and create faults because the plates move horizontally past one another.
What is a transform boundary?