Earth in Space
This motion of Earth causes daytime and nighttime.
What is rotation?
The thickest Earth layer where convection currents occur.
What is the mantle?
Matter in this state has no definite shape or volume.
What is a gas?
The highest point of a transverse wave.
What is a crest?
Plants use this process to make sugar using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
When the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the Sun, this season occurs there.
What is winter?
This type of boundary forms mountains and volcanoes when plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
Heat moving through direct contact is called this.
What is conduction?
Sound waves are this type of wave.
What are longitudinal waves?
The colorful parts of a flower help attract these.
What are pollinators?
These tides happen when the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up.
What are spring tides?
This rock type forms when magma or lava cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
Warm air rising and cool air sinking is an example of this type of heat transfer.
What is convection?
The distance from crest to crest is called this.
What is wavelength?
Plants bending toward light is an example of this tropism.
What is phototropism?
During this event, Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This soil particle is the smallest and holds the most water.
What is clay?
This method measures the volume of an irregular object using water.
What is volume displacement?
Light bending when it moves from air into water is called this.
What is refraction?
This gas is released by plants during photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
Earth takes this amount of time to travel once around the Sun
What is 365.25 days (1 year)?
The Earth layer made mostly of liquid iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
The transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
The amount of energy carried by a wave is related to this property.
What is amplitude?
The male flower structure that produces pollen.
What is the stamen (or anther)?