Energy and Work
The form of energy that is stored, providing the ability to do work.
What is potential energy?
The unit of measurement of frequency.
What is Hertz?
(1 / seconds)
An event where one tectonic plate that is more dense then another gets pushed underneath the less dense plate.
What is subduction?
This is the only color we just don't see from a star.
What is green?
This is the most seismically active area on Earth.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The term for the ability to do work.
What is energy?
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles are pushed together.
What is a compression?
Triggered by volcanic eruptions, this is a hot volcanic mudflow made of ash, rock, and water.
What is a lahar?
The gaseous remains of the most brilliant and powerful type of explosion in the universe.
What is a supernova remnant?
The point from which an earthquake starts, where seismic waves are generated from.
What is the focus?
A factor that describes how much a machine multiplies the input force.
What is mechanical advantage?
This illusion happens when light waves pass across a boundary between 2 substances and distort images to make it seem like an object is bent or disconnected.
What is refraction?
The volcano that emerged in 1943 in the cornfield of Dionisio Pulido.
What is Paricutin?
A collection of wavelengths of continuously changing length that occurs in a specific pattern.
What is a spectrum?
A visible break or "step" in the earth's surface, caused by a slip along the fault.
What is a fault scarp?
The formula (equation) used to calculate kinetic energy.
What is KE = 1/2mv2 ?
The phase of matter that waves travel through the fastest.
What are solids?
These tiny particles released by a volcanic eruption can be hard to detect.
What are aerosols?
This dense core of material is what's left after a supernova.
What is a neutron star?
This scale of measurement is useful for subjectively describing the aftermath of an earthquake.
What is the Modified Mercalli Index?
(It classifies EQ intensity.)
This foundational principle states that energy can't be created or destroyed, although it can be changed from one form into another.
What is The Law of Conservation of Energy?
These seismic waves travel more slowly than body waves, and produce a rolling type of motion, causing great damage.
What are Rayleigh surface waves?
This part of the earth has winds that curve to the left in their direction of travel.
What is the southern hemisphere?
This attraction in an atom's nucleus is what must be overcome in order for protons and neutrons to switch identities, causing beta decay.
What is the nuclear weak force?
This concept offers an explanation for how the gradual buildup and release of energy along faults causes earthquakes.
What is elastic rebound theory?