Weather
What is a condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a certain place and time?
Weather
What type of rock is formed through intense heat and increased pressure?
Metamorphic
When light hits a smooth surface and bounces back, it is an example of ______________
Reflection
__________________ is the energy that is transferred from a warmer object to a cooler object
Heat
An if/then statement that makes a prediction of the outcome of an experiment is called ________
Hypothesis
What type of cloud is associated as a thunder cloud?
Cumulonimbus
What is the name of the process that produces sedimentary rocks in which minerals in water glue the pieces of sediments together?
Cementation
If two ocean waves collide from opposite directions so they momentarily form a bigger, hill-like shape before continuing in their original directions, what type of action is occurring?
Constructive Interference
What type of heat transfer was occurring in the solar pizza oven where heat waves travelled from heat lamps to the box causing our pizza box to heat up?
Radiation
Using the highest objective magnification, what would be the total magnification on a standard microscope?
400x
What tool that measures wind speed?
Anemometer
What type of rock is formed when lava cools quickly on Earth's surface?
Extrusive Igneous Rock
A megaphone is used to increase sound waves as they travel in the air. What wave behavior is being used when using a megaphone?
Diffraction
_______________ is the total kinetic and potential energy of all the particles in an object or substance.
Thermal Energy
Which organelle stores water, food, waste products, or other materials?
Vacuole
What are the two forces of the water cycle?
The Sun & Gravity
Directional pressure can cause the minerals to align in layers in metamorphic rock called ________________.
Foliation
Two waves are traveling toward each other and are going to interact. The waves meet with a crest of 2 inches of amplitude for wave 1 and a trough of 3 inches of amplitude for wave 2. What will be the resulting amplitude of the interaction between the waves?
Trough-1 inch
_________________ is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object or substance.
Temperature
Which feature results when plates of different densities converge and one plate slips under the other?
Trench
Where is most of the worlds freshwater located?
Glaciers and Ice Caps
What is the most common agent of erosion for moving sediment?
Moving Water
What color will appear on an object that is reflecting all colors of the visible light spectrum?
When energy is transformed from one state of matter to another, the total amount of energy in the system...
Conserved (Doesn't change)
What is the name of the tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes that stretches around the pacific ocean?
Ring of Fire