Voabulary
A point on landforms that are above sea level
What is elevation?
This sphere includes all gases on Earth
What is the atmosphere?
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed only transferred or transformed
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Friction can create this when particles increase temperature
What is thermal energy?
The boundary between land and oceans or lakes
What is a coastline
Features of this sphere include glaciers in Antarctica
What is the cryosphere?
This sphere contains the cryosphere
What is the hydrosphere?
associated with objects that can be compressed or stretched
What is elastic potential energy?
When two objects physically push or pull each other
What are contact forces?
Sediments that build up at the mouth of a river creates this landform
What is a Delta?
Heat transfer through direct contact
What is Conduction?
The sphere that contains all of Earth's rocks and metal and includes the lithosphere
What is the Geosphere
This type of energy is observed before dropping a ball and it is associated with the objects verticle position
What is gravitational potential energy?
The unit to measure the strength of a force
What are Newtons?
A formation of rocks in a tall structure
What are mountains?
This is the total kinetic and potential energy of motion in the particles of a substances
What is thermal energy?
When objects are in motion they have this type of energy
What is kinetic energy?
Magnetic forces, Gravitational forces, and electrostatic forces are all examples of this type of force
What are non-contact forces?
This is the shape of the land
What is topography?
When energy moves from one place to another
What is energy transfer?
A force applied on an object that causes it to change its motion
What is an imbalanced forces?