Put It In Motion
What is motion?
Motion is when an object moves.
What is the state of matter all around you at the moment?
You are surrounded by oxygen, a gas.
What is the crust?
Sediment is a bunch of rocks broken down into tiny pieces.
What is mass?
Mass is the amount of matter in an object.
What is a force?
A force is a push or a pull on an object.
What state of matter are humans?
You are a solid! Nothing else you could be, since you're not air nor apple juice.
What are all the layers made of?
Rocks make up each and every layer, just in different forms.
What is a sedimentary rock?
A sedimentary rock is when layers of sediment compact and cement together.
What is a variable?
A variable is something in an experiment that can change.
What is a vector quantity?
A vector quantity is the measurement of both speed and direction.
What state of matter takes up the shape of its container, and goes everywhere without one?
Liquids take the shape of their container. If you said gases too, that's correct too.
How many layers to the Earth are there?
There are four layers!
What is an igneous rock?
An igneous rock is a rock that cools inside the Earth.
What is a substance?
A substance is when something dissolves in a liquid, and it cannot be separated.
What is a pendulum?
A pendulum is a simple structure that swings back and forth with three parts; the bob, the string, and the fastener.
How is matter changed from one phase to another?
You use heat to turn create the chain solid-liquid-gas, and cool it down to reverse the effects.
How many layers of the core are there?
There are two layers, the hottest being the inner core, and the outer core, that acts like a "shell" for the inner core.
What does intrusive mean?
Intrusive describes an igneous rock that cooled inside the Earth, taking much longer than usual.
What is volume?
Volume is the measure of the amount of space an object takes up.
What is force usually measured in?
Force is usually measured in Newtons, named after Sir Issac Newton, the man who discovered gravity.
Pop up! What is a Non-Newtonian fluid?
This is a rare state of matter that hardens when in contact with force but behaves as a liquid otherwise.
What causes movement of tectonic plates?
Earth's thermal energy moves its tectonic plates around.
No! The rock cycle can move any way it chooses, and has been since the dawn of time.
Finish the sentence! As sound waves travel, the molecules ___________________, causing sound.
The molecules hit one another and vibrate.