Solids, Liquids, Gases
Definite volume and no definite shape
What is a liquid?
The periodic table is arranged in this manner of increasing
What is atomic number?
Process of wearing down and carrying away rock
What is erosion?
The continual process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back driven by energy from the sun and gravity
What is the water cycle?
The eclipse when the moon is between the sun and the earth
What is a solar eclipse?
The two types of solids
What is the amorphous and crystalline solids?
Two physical properties of metals
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What are luster, malleability, ductility, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, and/or magnetism?
The breaking down of rock through chemical changes
What is chemical weathering?
Water is given off through the leaves as water vapor in this process
What is transpiration?
The longest day of the year when the earth's North Pole is angled towards the sun, June 21st.
What is the Summer Solstice?
A inward force or pull among the molecules in a liquid that brings molecules on the surface closer together
What is surface tension?
Element with the atomic number of 11
What is Sodium "Na"?
The weathering away of rock by rock particles carried by water, ice,wind, or gravity
What is abrasion?
The land area that supplies water to a river system, also known as a drainage basin
What is a watershed?
The weakest tide, during the first and third quarter moon phases, moon is perpendicular to the earth and sun
What is the Neap Tide?
The change in state from a liquid to a gas
What is vaporization?
The non-metal family that is highly reactive
What is the halogen family?
Geologists make inferences based on this principle
What is uniformitarianism?
A major advance in ocean floor mapping, Sound Navigation and Ranging
What is SONAR?
A type of observation that uses measurement of light years, observations that are only expressed in numbers
DAILY DOUBLE
What are quantitative observations?
The law of temperature of a gas at constant pressure is increased, its volume increases, along with the temperature of a gas at constant pressure decreases, so does its volume decreases
What is Charles's Law?
Substances that can conduct electric currents under some conditions but not under other conditions
What is a semiconductor?
Organisms that break the remains of dead organisms into smaller pieces and digest them with chemicals?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What are decomposers?
The energy resource that uses intense heat from the Earth's interior
What is geothermal energy?
The number of stars in our Solar System
What is one-our Sun?