The idea that objects do not change their motion unless a force acts on them.
What is inertia?๐ฉท
The ability to cause motion or change.
What is energy?๐ค
Large clouds of gas and dust in space where stars and planets can form.
What are molecular clouds?๐ค
Large pieces of Earth's crust that slowly move on the mantle.
What are plate tectonics?โฅ
A sudden shaking in the ground is caused by the movement of Earth's plates.
What is an earthquake?๐ต
The tiny particles that make up all matter.
What are atoms?โค
The measure of how hot or cold something is compared to a reference point.
What is temperature?๐
The name of the supercontinent that existed when all continents were joined together.
What is Pangaea?๐ฉถ
When two plates move away from eachother.
What are divergent plate boundaries?๐
A rotating column of air with very strong winds that forms over land.
What is a tornado?๐ฃ
The force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?๐
The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler one.
What is heat?๐
The collision with this object is thought to have created the moon.
What is Theia?โ
When two plates collide or push together.
What are convergent plate boundaries?๐ด
A mountain that erupts molten rock, ash, and gas.
What is a volcano?๐ค
Waves that carry energy from the Sun to Earth without needing air or matter.
What are radiation waves? ๐งก
The total energy of all the particles in an object also depends on the object's temperature and the number of particles.
What is thermal energy?๐ค
The first four planets in our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?๐ฉต
When two plates slide past eachother.
What are transform plate boundaries?๐ก
A giant ocean wave that is usually caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?โซ
The transfer of heat energy through direct contact.
What is conduction?๐
This relates to motion.
What is kinetic energy?๐
The four main layers of Earth.
What are crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?๐ท
The process where one plate sinks beneath another at a convergent boundary.
What is subduction? ๐ข
The downhill movement of rock, soil, and debris due to gravity.
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