Electricity
Physical property what causes particles or objects to attract or repel without touching
What is Electric Charge?
Plates that pull away from each other
What is a divergent plate boundary?
What is the oceanic crust?
A day relative to the stars (23h 56min)
What is a Sidereal Day?
Galaxy that we are apart of
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
Area around a charge where electric force can be felt
What is an Electric Field?
Magnetite crystals line up with magnetic poles when formed
What is Magnetic Polarity?
Layer of our Atmosphere that contains the ozone layer and is the 2nd lowest layer
What is the Stratosphere?
Day relative to the sun (24 hours)
What is a Solar day?
Coldest color of a star
Electrons can move around, but are not destoryed
What is the Law of Conservation of Charge?
Hypothesis that seafloor is being made at mid oceanic ridges with evidence of trenches, abyssal plains, and echo sounding
What is seafloor spreading?
Circulation patterns occurring in fluids where warmer material rises and cooler material sinks
What is convection currents?
Center of our solar system
What is the Sun?
Hottest color of a star
What is blue?
To rub materials together
What is Friction?
Cause of the movement of plates around the surface of Earth
What is convection cells?
Largest layer of Earth's interior where convection currents are
What is the Mantle?
Number of planets in our solar system
What is 8?
Most critical property that determines a star's lifetime
What is mass?
Transfer through direct contact
What is Conduction?
Plates that come together
What is a convergent plate?
Most inner portion of the Earth's interior, primarily Iron and Nickel
What is the core?
When the Moon is directly in-between the Sun and the Earth
What is a Solar Eclipse?
Galaxy that's flat rotating disk with spiral arms
What are Spiral Galaxies?