Energy
Energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
Heat transfer through direct contact
What is conduction?
A wave that requires a medium
What is a mechanical wave?
The electromagnetic wave humans can see
What is visible light?
The four main layers of Earth
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
Stored energy due to position or height
What is potential energy?
Heat transfer by movement of fluids
What is convection?
The distance between two wave crests
What is wavelength?
The electromagnetic wave with the longest wavelength
What are radio waves?
The only liquid layer of Earth
What is the outer core?
The two things kinetic energy depends on
What are mass and velocity?
Heat transfer through electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
The number of waves passing a point each second
What is frequency?
The electromagnetic wave with the shortest wavelength
What are gamma rays?
The scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The equation for kinetic energy
KE=.5 x MASS x VELOCITY2
This type of heat transfer causes warm air to rise and cool air to sink
What is convection?
As frequency increases, wavelength does this
What is decreases?
These waves are commonly used in microwave ovens
What are microwaves?
The name of the ancient supercontinent
What is Pangaea?
A 45 kg skater moving at 7 m/s has this much kinetic energy
What is 1102.5 J?
Touching a hot pan handle is an example of this
What is conduction?
The equation for wave speed
v= frequency x wavelength
The most damaging electromagnetic wave to humans
What are gamma rays?
The process where old ocean crust sinks back into Earth
What is subduction?