Harnessing Human Energy
Ability to make things move or change
What is energy?
A noticeably different form or state of the same substance
What is phase?
A push or a pull that can change the motion of an object
What is force?
A sudden shaking of the Earth's surface
What is an earthquake?
Rock formed from cooling magma
What is igneous?
Energy object has because it is moving
What is kinetic energy?
A measure of how hot or cold something is
A force between an object and the surface it is moving over
What is friction?
Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
What is a fossil?
Rock formed from sediment being pressed and glued together
What is sedimentary?
Energy that is stored in an object or system
What is potential energy?
Phase in which molecules can move around each other
What is liquid?
The amount of matter an object has
What is mass?
Hot liquid rock
What is magma or lava?
Process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces due to wind or moving water
What is weathering?
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
What is a system?
A gas changing into a liquid is called
What is condensation?
Moment when two objects hit each other
What is a collision?
Layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
What is mantle?
Movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water
What is erosion?
A machine that can convert kinetic energy into electrical energy
What is a generator?
Way molecules in a substance move around relative to each other
What is freedom of movement?
The collision between the space pod and the space station was due to the different mass of the asteroid samples (True or False)
When two plates come together
What is convergent boundary?
Process by which all the rock formations of a region are pushed up due to plate motion
What is uplift?