Physics
What is the name of the force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching?
What is friction
Warm air rising and cool air sinking is an example of which type of heat transfer?
Convection currents are caused by the rising of less dense, warm fluids and the sinking of denser, cool fluids.
How many years ago did the Earth form?
What is 4.5 Billion years ago?
The large, rigid rock structures that make up the surface of our Earth and interact with each other.
What are plate tectonics?
The landform which magma erupts from.
What is volcanos?
What is the unit of measurement for Force?
Newton
The term describes the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
Temperature is defined as the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.
What is the name of the supercontinent that all continents on Earth originated from?
What is Pangea?
All three types of tectonic boundaries.
What are Transform, Convergent, and Divergent?
The sound that some natural disasters make that humans can't hear.
What is infrasound?
Which type of energy is stored in a stretched rubber band?
Elastic Potential Energy: This is energy stored as a result of applying a force to deform an elastic object.
The method of heat transfer occurs when you burn your hand by touching a hot stove.
Conduction is the transfer of heat through direct contact between materials.
What is the core of the Earth made out of?
What is metal/iron/nickel?
The landform that forms at divergent boundaries.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
Sound range for ultrasound.
Above 20khz.
What do we call the tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion?
Inertia
the sun's energy reach the Earth through the vacuum of space?
Radiation can travel through a vacuum because it moves as electromagnetic waves.
The event that happens to the plate that goes under the other at a convergent boundary.
What is subduction?
range for audible sound
20hz - 20khz
If you drop a bowling ball and a feather in a vacuum (no air resistance), which hits the ground first?
They hit at the same time
The material that does not allow heat to move through it easily?
An insulator, like styrofoam or wool, resists the flow of heat.
The 2 fault lines in the USA.
What are the San Andres Fault and the New Madrid Fault?
Name 3 types of volcanos.
Any 3 from (Strato volcanos, Shield volcanos, Colderas volcanos, Crater volcanos, Fissure vents, Scoria cones, Lava domes, Submarine volcanos, Geothermal features, Maars volcanos, and Volcanic fields.