Energy
What is stored energy?
potential
What is friction?
a force that slows an object down
Which type of rock forms with pressure?
metamorphic
Which type of plate boundary occurs when plates spread away from each other?
divergent
A category of waves that can travel through a medium or a vacuum
electromagnetic waves
Which transfer of thermal energy requires light?
radiation
What is inertia?
Which type of fossil shows where a species has been?
trace
What is the mega-landmass that supposedly existed before continental drift?
Pangea
Distance of a wave from peak to peak or trough to trough
wavelength
What allows heat to travel easily?
conductor
Who created the 3 laws of motion?
Newton
What does the law of superposition tell us?
younger rock layers are on the top
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegner
This occurs when a wave travels from one medium to another and the speed of the wave changes.
Refraction
Which type of energy requires a push or a pull?
magnetic
What is Newton's 2nd law?
f = ma (acceleration)
Which geologic time era occurred when marine life was formed?
Which plate boundary occurs along earthquake boundaries?
transform
The measurement of a wave from the rest position to the crest or the rest to the trough
amplitude
What energy transformation occurs in a windmill? It starts as ______energy and turns into ______ energy.
mechanical / electrical
What is the action and reaction when a rocket takes off? (What pushes and what pushes back?)
action - fire pushes down on ground
reaction - rocket push back and flies up
The principle of crosscutting tells us what?
What forms at convergent plate boundaries?
mountains, volcanoes
This visible color on the electromagnetic spectrum has the shortest wavelength.
Violet / Purple