Forms of Energy
An educated guess that can be tested though experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
An attempt to explain a pattern observed many times
What is a scientific theory?
A desert like climate caused by a mountain's alititude.
What is a rainshadow?
There are three types of this.
What is thermal energy transfer?
You record this during an experiment.
What is data?
The energy a roller coaster has at the start of the ride.
What is potential energy?
Coordinates north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
Metal feels cold to the touch because my hand is [blank] thermal energy.
What is losing?
The process used to build or create something.
What is the engineering design process?
Dinstance from sea Level.
What is Altitude?
The measurment of the kinetic energy of all th eparticles in a material.
What is temperature?
The energy stored in the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
The thing(s) in an experiment that you control.
What is independent variable?
It causes something to slow down.
What is friction?
Day to day conditions in the atmostphere.
What is weather?
The soda can reaches room temp first because of this type of thermal energy transfer.
What is conduction?
The name of the ocean current that causes our climate to be cool temperate.
What is the California Cold Current?
Objects seem to move by an observer as a result of the Earth's rotation.
What is the coriolis effect?
The rising of warmer less dense fluids and the falling of cooler more dense fluids.
What is convection?