Vocab.
giving your answer
The hole in the center of your eye that allows light to pass through is called?
pupil
Current and Static are two forms of what?
electricity
Name the layers of the earth -in order!
crust
mantle
outer core
inner core
The nickname for the area where most volcanoes form in the Pacific Ocean ?
Ring of Fire
This compound vocab. words means the same as baby or young?
offspring
Transverse and Longitudinal are both types of ?
waves
What type of energy is stored in a battery?
chemical
Geologist
A map that shows only land shape and elevation using either contour lines or colors is called?
Topographic Map
To make more of the same kind?
reproduce
If you change a sounds volume or a lights brightness you are changing its what?
amplitude
Energy being stored up and waiting to be used?
Potential Energy
If you dug down into several strata layer and found fossils stacked on top of one another. Explain how you would know what fossil was oldest and which was youngest ?
Long ago the world was thought to be one super continent called?
Pangea
A word that means the same as wreck or crash ? To come together with great force.
collision
How high or low a sound is. Is called the _________?
pitch
Turning moving water into electricity using a dam is know as ?
Hydro Power (Hydro Electricity)
The process that wears away earth's crust? The reason mountains don't last forever because of wind. water. ice and gravity. This is because of ________ and __________?
weathering and erosion
Explain why sometimes on a map North America is on the left side and sometime its on the right side?
The world is a sphere and maps are flat. As the world rotates North America appear of different sides.
A fossil made from hardened tree sap?
Amber
Convex and Concave are two kinds of what?
lenses
Energy from the sunlight ?
Solar Power
The huge pieces of Earth's crust that shift around causing earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes ?
Tectonic Plates
The line where two tectonic plates meet?
fault line