Energy
The type of energy that is stored energy
What is potential energy?
The height of a wave
What is amplitude?
Horizontal bands of colored rock
What are sedimentary strata?
Physical contact breaking down the rock on Earth's surface
What is mechanical weathering or physical weathering?
Where portable potential energy is converted to electricity to power your phone
What is a battery?
The type of energy a moving object has
What is kinetic energy?
The part of a wave that measures distance from one crest of a wave to another
What is wavelength?
The fossil in the bottom layer of sedimentary rock
What is the oldest fossil?
This is when broken pieces of sediment are taken away
What is erosion?
The type of energy inside a battery
What is chemical energy?
The more of this a moving object has, the more kinetic energy it has
What is speed?
Light waves are bent when they enter a new medium
What is refraction?
Causes a shift that folds rock strata downward
What is an earthquake?
This is what happens when sediment is dropped off somewhere else
What is deposition?
How electricity moves, like water in a stream
What is electric current?
This would increase the potential energy of a sled that is halfway up a hill
What is increasing the height?
The part of a wave that measures the energy the wave has
What is amplitude?
Deep cracks in the Earth; younger than the rock surrounding it; where earthquakes happen
What is a fault?
Islands of sediment forming where the Mississippi River meets the gulf
What is a delta?
Materials like copper that allow electrical energy to travel through it easily
What is a conductor?
A noncontact force pulling everything toward the center of the Earth
What is gravity?
A type of material that allows no light to pass through, so it cannot be seen through
What is opaque?
Fish fossils found in the desert are evidence that this must have once been there
What is water?
When acid rain stains rocks a different color, this is happening
What is chemical weathering?
Materials like rubber that electricity cannot travel through easily
What is an insulator?