Natural Disasters
The cause of Mass Wasting.
What is gravity?
The four layers of the Earth.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
The three tectonic plate boundaries.
What are convergent boundaries, transform boundaries, and divergent boundaries.
The total energy of all the particles in an object.
What is Thermal Energy?
A property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.
What is inertia?
The two causes of floods.
What is runoff and storm surge?
The first four planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
Natural disasters that convergent boundaries cause.
What is volcanoes and deep ocean trenches?
Radiation, Convection, Conduction.
What are the methods to transfer thermal energy?
Gravity.
What is the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass?
The ways scientists predict natural disasters.
What is analyzing patterns in data related to environmental factors?
What brought water to Earth.
What are Meteorites?
The lithosphere.
What is the rigid outermost rock layer of Earth?
Total kinetic energy.
What is a system's thermal energy determined by ?
The difference between weight and mass.
What is mass stays the same, and weight changes with gravity.
The way scientists predict Hurricanes.
What are precursor events?
__are bacteria through photosynthesis, later converting carbon dioxide to oxygen.
What are Stromatolites?
The process by which by the mid-ocean ridge slowly pulls away from each other allowing molten rock to rise and solidify forming a new seafloor.
What is seafloor spreading?
Why can objects with higher temp have less thermal energy and vice versa.
What is the amount of thermal energy is measured in the amount of particles on average not just temperature?
The ___ never stop moving. ____ attract and repel like a dance, yet never touch. ____ form a lattice pattern. What am I?
What are molecules in solids?
The four causes of Tsunamis.
What are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, underwater landslides, and asteroid impacts?
The cause of the extinction of dinosaurs.
What is a large asteroid releasing a cloud of dust and blocking most of the suns energy.
The force produced by the sinking of a plate.
What is slab pull?
Heat and Mass.
What is a type of matter that affects thermal energy.
The process in which scientists use to study the world around them. It is used to test whether any hypothesis is accurate.
What is the Scientific Method?