Thermal Energy
This material is a good conductor of heat (and electricity) because it has densely packed atoms with loosely bound electrons that move freely.
What is metal?
The process by which a liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
Earth, air and water near the equator are warmer for this reason.
Why does the equator get more consistent and direct sunlight and thus heat energy?
A term for a living thing.
What is an organism?
When something is too small to be seen with the naked eye it is called this.
What is microscopic?
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) dissociates into these two harmless products.
What are oxygen gas (O2) and water (H2O).
The term for the state reached by two things that have exchanged energy until they reach the same temperature
What is thermal equilibrium?
Air flows from areas of high pressure to low pressure, creating this.
What is wind?
This element on which all life on Earth is based is released to the atmosphere in gaseous form as carbon dioxide or methane during decomposition of organic matter.
What is carbon?
The body system in charge of delivering molecules to the cells.
What is the Circulatory System?
What are plant cells?
The crew of this mission launched on April 1 performed a historic 10-day lunar fly-by.
What is Artemis II?
According to the law of the conservation of energy, energy cannot be _______ nor _________, it can only be transformed or transferred.
What are created and destroyed?
The general name for a low latitude storm with high winds, called a hurricane in the Atlantic and a typhoon in the Pacific.
What is a tropical cyclone?
Cities near the coast have generally milder temperatures because this acts as a heat sink in summer and a heat source in winter.
What is the ocean?
Elisa ended up having this condition which was making her tired because her body couldn't process the glucose she was taking in.
What is diabetes?
One downside of taking antibiotics is that they also do this, in addition to killing bad bacteria.
What is kill good bacteria?
This animal is made of cells that will find each other and reattach when separated and has no true tissues.
What is a sponge?
Sample A has molecules that are moving very fast. Sample B has molecules that are moving very slow.
The hotter sample is ______ and the sample with a higher average kinetic energy is _______.
What are Sample A and Sample A?
This kind of pressure system with sinking air persists off the northern California coast for most of the summer, blocking rainstorms and keeping davis warm and dry.
What is a high pressure system?
The Horse Latitudes and major deserts are found at approximately this latitude, at the boundary of the Hadley and Ferrel cells where air from the tropics cools and sinks.
What is 30 degrees?
The body system in charge of processing the food we eat and removing waste from the body.
What is the Digestive System?
The parts of the cell that build protein molecules based on instructions from genes.
What are ribosomes?
Yeast are this type of organism, which have cell walls made of chitin but do not photosynthesize.
What is a fungus?
Names for the process of heat transfer by 1. the collision of molecules, 2. density-driven flows within a fluid, and 3. electromagnetic waves in the infrared spectrum.
What are 1. conduction, 2. convection, and 3. radiation?
Air parcels that have risen, expanded, and cooled to the dewpoint temperature form these.
What are clouds?
The name of the deep ocean currents that are driven by differences in temperature and salinity.
What are thermohaline currents?
Name for the process by which bodies use molecules for energy and growth; it includes breaking down (catabolism) and building up (anabolism).
What is metabolism?
These two molecules are needed for Cellular Respiration, when the cells create usable energy and release carbon dioxide and water as waste products.
What are Oxygen and Glucose?
This climate phenomenon was first named by Peruvian fisherman when they noticed warm water and a disappearance of fish every so often around Christmas. It is caused by weak easterly trade winds. It is forecast to be VERY strong this coming fall and winter and could bring lots of rain to CA, drought to South and Southeast Asia, and especially high global average temperatures.
What is El Niño?