Heat & the Environment
The transfer of thermal energy caused by the flow of a fluid's particles (a gas or a liquid).
What is convection?
An explanation of what matter is made of and how it behaves.
What is a the particle theory of matter?
Another word for a uniform mixture.
What is homogeneous?
Someone who studies the relationship between living organisms and their environment.
What is a biologist?
Makes particles move faster.
What is heat?
Curved shapes that enclose a hollow space and provide support.
What is a shell structure?
Does not have a definite volume or a definite shape.
What is a gas?
Water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides.
What are greenhouse gases?
A series of gradual changes that result in the replacement of one community of plants and animals by another.
What is succession?
These use the sun's radiant energy to create electricity.
What are solar panels?
A type of force that can occur when forces push or pull in opposite directions within an object.
What is shear force?
Matter that contains only one type of particle
What is a pure substance?
What is a sieve?
What is competition?
A measure of the average kinetic energy of particles.
What is temperature?
A bridge with a platform held up by cables.
What is a suspension bridge?
Another word for a mechanical mixture
What is heterogeneous?
Wind, waves, solar energy, biofuel.
What is renewable energy source?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are concentrated sources of chemical energy called...
What are fossil fuels?
Designing structures and systems that help people do tasks comfortably and safely.
What is ergonomics?
It is the universal solvent
What is the water?
The process of heating a solution of two or more liquids until one liquid evaporates into a gas.
What is distillation?"
They are essential to the ecosystem and convert biotic elements into abiotic elements.
What is a decomposer?