physics
What is water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it is called?
Condensation
What is the total energy of moving particles in an object called?
Thermal Energy
What do we call Earth’s earliest supercontinent?
Pangaea
What is the boundary called where two plates move apart?
Divergent boundary
What causes tornadoes?
Warm, moist air meets cold, dry air, creating spinning storms
A car suddenly stops. Why do passengers move forward?
Inertia
Which type of heat transfer does not require matter to travel?
Radiation
What layer of Earth is the hottest?
core
What type of boundary causes the most earthquakes?
transform boundry
What causes tsunamis?
Sudden movement of the seafloor, usually from an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption
When heat moves from one object to another object through direct touch, what does it cause
Conduction
Two objects have the same temperature. Which one has more thermal energy: a swimming pool or a cup of water, and why?
he swimming pool, because it has more particles
Why did Earth have no solid crust at first?
the surface was molten
What happens at a subduction zone?
One plate moves under another and melts
What causes the Ring of Fire to have so many earthquakes and volcanoes?
Active plate boundaries and subduction zones around the Pacific Plate
The smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties is?
Atoms
What is heat?
Heat is the transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What happened as Earth cooled that allowed continents to form?
A solid crust formed on Earth’s surface
What type of boundary forms new oceanic crust?
Divergent boundary
What causes some volcanic eruptions to be explosive while others are gentle?
The viscosity of magma and the amount of trapped gas
What type of energy does a moving object have?
Kinetic energy
What happens to particles when an object is heated?
they move faster
How did outgassing change Earth’s surface and atmosphere?
it released gases that formed the atmosphere and allowed oceans to develop
What force inside Earth causes tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle
What causes certain areas to be more vulnerable to natural hazards than others?
Location near active plate boundaries, climate extremes, and human factors like urban density