Forces
This force is responsible for slowing down a sliding object due to contact with the surface.
What is friction?
The pier creates job opportunities for Texans in various sectors, boosting local employment. This advantage is known as what?
What is income or economic growth?
This type of evidence can help identify and describe past environments.
What is fossil evidence?
This term describes a complete loop through which electrical energy travels, necessary for producing light and thermal energy.
What is a closed circuit?
This force can act at a distance and is responsible for attracting magnets toward one another.
What is magnetism?
The construction of a pier can lead to this disadvantage.
What is the destruction of these natural environments where many species live?
Imagine you found a fish fossil in your backyard. What might this suggest about the historical environment of that area?
It may have been underwater or part of a marine ecosystem?
The three main components of a basic electrical circuit.
What are battery, bulb, and switch?
This force causes a biker to skate down the half-pipe ramp over and over again.
What is gravity?
This type of environmental issue may increase due to the construction and operation of a pier.
What is pollution?
This is the most important activity to help you decide who to vote for in an election.
What is researching information about the candidates?
A hot pot of boiling water is an example of this type of energy.
What is thermal energy?
These TWO Texan women were strong forces in preserving the history of The Alamo.
Who are Adina de Zavala and Clara Driscoll?
Building a pier can alter these features, which can have this long-lasting negative effects on the local landscape.
What are natural landforms?
This action is considered a fundamental responsibility of citizens during elections, allowing them to express their choices.
What is voting?
This term describes materials that prevent or slow the passage of thermal and electrical energy.
What are insulators?
An example of this type of energy is water bubbles boiling in a pot of water.
What is thermal energy?
Building a pier attracts tourists to Texas, contributing to this type of advantage.
What is economic growth?
Writing letters to public officials, volunteering on historic preservation projects, campaigning for candidates.
The above are all examples of this term used in Social Studies.
What are civic affairs?
These materials allow thermal and electrical energy to pass through easily.
What are conductors?