Electricity
Matter that causes another matter to experience force when placed around an electromagnetic field.
What is electric charge?
The Crust and Upper Mantle.
What is the lithosphere & asthenosphere?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
What is precipitation?
First planet from the sun, the Smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
Made of dust, ice, and rocks, and found in the Kuiper Belt.
What are Comets?
The area around a charged particle or object with force.
What is an electric field?
The theory that all continents were once one land mass that separated and drifted apart over time.
The conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
The second planet from the sun, Earth's sister planet.
What is Venus?
Made of mostly rocks and metals; found mainly between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
When negative charges clump at the base of a cloud and positive charges clump at the top of a cloud, which then makes a reaction.
How does lighting occur?
The landmass that existed when all continents were joined.
What is Pangea?
The process of turning from liquid into vapor.
What is evaporation?
Third planet from the sun, We live here!
What is Earth?
Used to be the 9th planet in our solar system; is 39 AU from the sun.
What is Pluto?
Continuous flows of electrons, that are measured in ohms. There are 2 types, DC and AC
What is electric current?
The process of new oceanic crust forming as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies.
What is sea-floor spreading?
The process by which water moves downward through the soil under gravitational forces.
What is percolation?
The fourth planet from the sun, the red planet.
What is Mars?
Come from comets, asteroids, and other planets; take on 3 names depending on location.
What are Meteors, Meteorites, and Meteoroids?
Difference in electric potential energy that are measured in volts.
What is voltage?
Where tectonic plates meet.
What are boundaries?
When plants take up liquid water from the soil and release water vapor into the air from their leaves.
What is transpiration?
Planets that orbit closest to the sun; All solid, dense, & Rocky.
Black Dwarfs, White Dwarfs, Red Giant, planetary nebula, supernovas, red supergiants, and neutron stars.
What are kinds of stars?