Energy & Motion
The faster a given object is moving, the more of this it possesses.
What is energy?
A repeating pattern that transfers energy over a distance.
What is a wave
Plants and animals have internal and external "parts" called this to help them survive.
What are structures?
The process of wind, water, or ice breaking down and moving Earth's materials.
What is erosion?
This is the process by which energy moves from place to place through electrical currents, heat, or sound waves.
What is energy transfer?
Humans can only see objects because this reflects off surfaces and enters our eyes.
What is light?
This system processes information from the senses and tells the body how to react.
What is the nervous system?
These are found in rock layers and provide evidence of how landscapes changed over time.
What are fossils?
When two objects collide, energy is transferred from one object to the other, often changing the objects' this
What is motion (or speed/direction)?
This measurement describes the height of a wave from its center to its peak.
What is amplitude?
An external structure on a plant, like a thorn, is primarily used for this.
What is protection?
Energy from the sun or wind is called this because it will not run out.
What is a renewable resource?
A hand-crank flashlight is a great example of energy conversion. When you turn the handle, you are changing this type of energy (motion) into electrical energy.
What is kinetic energy? (Or mechanical energy).
This is the distance between one "peak" of a wave and the very next "peak."
What is wavelength?
A bat uses this specific sense to gather information about its surroundings in the dark.
What is echolocation (or hearing)?
This is a design solution meant to reduce the impact of a natural hazard like a flood.
A levee or dam
In a collision between a moving wrecking ball and a stationary wall, some energy is transferred as motion, but some is also "lost" to the surroundings in these two forms.
What are sound and heat?
Computers and cell phones use this type of code, made of 1s and 0s, to send information reliably over long distances without losing quality
What is binary (or digital signals)?
When a rabbit hears a loud noise and decides to run, its ears act as the sensor, but this part of the body acts as the processor to decide what to do with that information.
What is the brain?
If a scientist finds a fossil of a sea shell in a rock layer at the very top of a tall mountain, it is evidence that this must have happened to that area of land over millions of years.
What is uplift? (Accept: The land was once underwater/part of the ocean floor and was pushed up).