Science MATTERS
Types of Energy
Plate Tectonics
Think like a scientist
Crennen's Classics
100

These are the three states of matter

What is a solid/liquid/gas?

100

This type of energy is measured of stored energy based off of an objects position in a system

What is potential energy?

100

This is a type of plate boundary

What is a transform boundary?

100

This is known as the study of living things

What is Biology?

100

The third planet form the sun

What is Earth?

200

This is the name of what happens to a substances when it goes from a liquid into a gas

What is evaporation?

200

This type of energy relates to the transfer of heat in a system

What is thermal energy?

200

What do we call #3 on the model in this layer of Earth? 

What is the lower/inner mantle?

200

Calculate the following, what is the potential energy of a roller coaster that is 10,000 grams is at a height of 50m (remember PE= mgh) 

What is 4,900,000 J


200

Matthews favorite basketball team

What are the Denver Nuggets?

300

All things made out of matter have a density, if you know these two properties about an object by dividing them you can calcualte the density

What is mass divided by volume?

300

This type of energy is dependent on an objects mass and its speed

What is kinetic energy?

300

This rock was found next to a volcano, what type of rock is it? 

What is an igneous rock?

300

It takes water a long time to boil because of this concept. (Hint boiling something requires energy)

What is a heat capacity?

300

The study of outer space and everything not on Earth

What is Astronomy/Astrology?

400

Like a hot air balloon when a gas is heated up it will do this motion

What is rising up?

400

The type of energy that relates to the "springiness" of a spring

What is elastic energy?

400

When a rock is changed from a sedimentary rock to a metamorphic rock it undergoes these processes

What is heat and pressue?

400

What process is this? (think of an oven)

What are convection currents?

400

This was the very first lab we did, what were some of the ingredients we used to make it? 

What is vegatable oil, food coloring, water, alka saltzer tabs?

500

This is the name for when a substance skips the liquid phases and goes straight from a solid into a gas

What is sublimination?

500

This type of energy is responsible for molecular bonds between atoms either breaking or forming new molecules

What is chemical energy?

500

Minerals can be identified using many different processes. List as many as you can

What is the hardness test, acid test, streak test, density test, luster test, shape test, magnetic test?

500

This type of plate boundary interaction is responsible for creating mountains 

What are convergent boundaries?

500

Canis lupus familiaris is what type of animal?

What is a dog?