Chemistry
The energy any object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface.
What are tectonic plates?
The mechanism (what casues) the plates to move.
What are convection cycles in the mantle?
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position.
What is potential energy?
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This type of energy is produced by the vibrations of matter. These vibrations can move through solid, liquid, or gaseous matter, but they cannot travel through empty space.
What is sound energy?
In the chemical reaction, carbon dioxide + water -> sugar + oxygen, the compounds carbon dioxide and water are located on this side of the equation.
What is the reactants side?
Energy carried by electricitiy.
What is electrical energy?
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart.
What is Continental Drift Theory?
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction and collision?
In the chemical reaction, Mg + O -> MgO, the compound MgO is located on this side of the equation.
What is the product side?
Energy of the movement of atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
States that youngest rocks of the ocean floor are at divergent boundaries, moving outward
What is seafloor spreading?
This is a type of energy that travels in waves and can travel through empty space.
What is light (radiant) energy?
Energy stored in the way atoms are connected to each other; in the bonds of compounds.
What is chemical energy?
Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this
How did the continents move?
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary? What is sea-floor spreading?