States of Matter
This state of matter has a definite shape and definite volume.
What is a solid?
Heat transfer by direct contact.
What is conduction?
Disturbances that transfer energy without transferring matter.
What are waves?
Rock type formed from cooling and solidifying magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
Breaking rocks into smaller pieces is called this.
What is weathering?
This state of matter makes up stars, including the Sun.
What is plasma?
This type of heat transfer in the mantle drives plate tectonics.
What is convection?
This type of wave can be found in the water of earths oceans.
What is a mechanical wave?
Rock type formed from compaction and cementation of sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
The movement of sediments from one place to another.
What is erosion?
The process of water vapor changing into liquid water.
What is condensation?
The transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
Which seismic wave cannot travel through liquids, proving Earth’s outer core is liquid?
What is an S-wave?
Heat and pressure change any rock into this type.
What is metamorphic rock?
Sand dunes are formed by this.
What is wind?
Which state of matter is most important in magma solidifying into rock?
What is liquid (magma)?
Which type of heat transfer is responsible for ocean currents and atmospheric circulation?
What is convection?
Ocean waves are mostly caused by wind, while tsunamis are caused by this.
What is seismic activity (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides)?
Sedimentary rocks are most likely to contain these.
What are fossils?
Rusting of rocks and minerals is this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
Particles in this state move freely with no definite shape or volume.
What is gas?
This type of heat transfer explains how Earth’s surface is warmed by the Sun, even though space is a vacuum.
What is radiation?
Waves transfer energy by doing this to particles.
What is vibrations?
This process turns metamorphic rock into magma.
What is melting?
After erosion, this process deposits sediments down in a new place.
What is deposition?