Introduction to matter
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
This has a definite shape and a definite volume.
What is a solid?
Ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
The relatively thin envelope of gases that forms Earth's outermost layer.
What is the atmosphere?
The total kinetic and potential energy of all the particles in an object.
What is thermal energy?
A characteristic that can be observed without changing the matter into another type of matter.
What is a physical property?
This has a definite volume but no definite shape.
What is a liquid?
A push or a pull.
What is a force?
The frozen component of the hydrosphere.
What is the cryosphere?
Type of heat transfer that occurs through the movement of fluids
Convection
A characteristic that describes something's ability to become something else.
What is a chemical property?
An inward force, or pull, among the molecules in a liquid that brings the molecules on the surface closer together.
What is surface tension?
Force * distance
The parts of earth containing all living organisms.
What is the biosphere?
Materials that do not conduct heat well.
What is an insulator?
Substances that are made up of only one type of atom.
What is an element?
A liquid's resistance to flowing.
What is viscosity?
Force * distance / time
What is power?
All of earth's water, including water that cycles through the atmosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of material 1 degree kelvin
Specific heat
A group of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
What is a molecule?
No definite shape and no definite volume.
Weight * height above ground
What is gravitational potential energy?
The shape of the land.
What is topography?
A material for airplanes which is strong as steel, lightweight, but expensive.
What is titanium?