Phase Change
Which example involves a phase change in which heat energy is released by the substance?
freezing ice cream
What is the deepest trench in the world?
Marianas Trench (Oceanic) - Oceanic planters).
What is the deepest lake in the world?
Lake Baikal in sourthern Russia, at 1,187 meters deep.
What is psychical weathering?
Physical actions, such as wind, or water freezing and cracking a rock.
When something becomes different over time?
Change.
What happens to a substances temperature during a phase change?
It stay the same.
Who came up with the Theory of Continental Drift?
Alfred Wigner.
How do geologists use carbon dating to find the age of rocks?
Geologists do not use carbon-based radiometric dating to determine the age of rocks.
List the three main types of weathering:
Physical, chemical and biological.
A population that eats organisms from another population?
Consumer population.
Energy is released during which phase changes? Check all that apply?
Condensing
Depositions
Freezing
How did Hawaii from?
From a HOT SPOT in the Earth’s mantle
True or false: the Great Lakes hold more than 20% of the world's available fresh water?
True.
What happens when metamorphic rock melts and then cools?
It becomes magma and then becomes igneous rock.
When two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source?
Competition.
The process in which a substance in a gaseous state turns to a liquid state (kind of like rain and clouds). Its caused by the change in pressure and temperature.
condensation
Explain Magnetic Striping
Magma comes out of Mid- Ocean Ridge. Iron in magma aligns with magnetic field.
What formation on Earth can have the names tabular, blocky, wedge, dome, pinnacle, dry dock, growler or bergy bit?
Icebergs.
What does shear stress occur?
This occurs between two rocks when one is being pushed in one direction and the other is being pulled in the opposite direction.
A scientist who studies interactions of organisms with each other and their environment?
Ecologists.
What does the diagram show about phases and the phase of the substance as it is heated? Check all that apply.
The particles are close together but move in different directions between
D°C and 2,200°C.
The speed of the particles increases in region 5.
The type of mountains formed by magma that reaches the Earth’s surface are known as…
Olcanic.
A measure of the size of a volcanic eruption is the VEl. What does VEl stand for?
Volcanic Explosivity Index.
Which type of rock is made from layers of sediment that are compacted and cemented together?
Sedimentary rock.
What do we call a perticular area where organisms interact with each other and their physical surroundings?
Ecosystem.