Light & Matter
When light bounces off of a surface
What is Reflection?
The ability to do work or cause change
What is energy?
Scientist that studies weather.
What is a Meteorologist?
Vibrations from an Earthquake that move outward away from the focus.
What are seismic waves?
Structure that has one or more specific jobs to perform inside the cell.
What are organelles?
No light is able to pass through, not see through
What is Opaque?
Curve on the surface of a liquid. Measurements are read from the mid-point.
What is a meniscus?
Part of the water cycle where plants pull water up through their roots, and release it back into the atmosphere through their leaves as water vapor.
What is transpiration?
Type of rock formed through the cooling of lava or magma.
What is igenous?
Organisms break down food for energy.
What is metabolism?
Section of the eye that helps focus and direct light toward the retina
What is Lens?
The movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
Process where water from rain or other sources soaks into the soil and rocks.
What is infiltration?
Process where more dense crust moves under less dense crust.
What is subduction?
Organisms work to keep a constant state.
What is homeostasis?
Carries nerve messages from the retina to the brain, so that the brain can “tell us” what we are seeing
What is Optic Nerve?
When a gas loses enough energy, the molecules move closer together again, and the gas returns to a liquid form.
What is condensation?
Happens when liquid water gathers in large bodies, like lakes and oceans.
What is accumulation?
The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge, and older crust moves away from the ridge.
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
Cells that do not contain a nucleus or organelles with membranes.
What are Prokaryotes?
The sun, firefly, flashlight, & candles are all examples of what?
What is Luminous?
How do you calculate an objects density?
Layer of earths atmosphere that weather occurs.
What is Troposphere?
Geologic feature that forms where two pieces of oceanic crust move apart.
What is Mid Ocean Ridge?
What layer of skin is the protective barrier, that contains dead skin cells?
What is epidermis?