Light & Matter
How does light travel?
In straight lines
The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is heat?
What clouds look like lines in the sky?
What are contrail clouds?
The type of boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally
What is a Transform Boundary?
What body system has all the bones in the body
What is the skeletal system?
How long does it take light from the sun to get to earth?
7 minuets.
The transfer of thermal energy through the movement of fluids (liquids and gases).
What is convection?
What is it called when you see a funnel shape coming down from a strom?
what is a tornado?
This boundary occurs where two plates push together
What is a Convergent Boundary?
Which type of neurons send messages from the brain to the body.
motor neurons
Materials like a frosted window allow some light to pass through but scatter it so you can't see a clear image.
What does translucent mean?
The transfer of energy through empty space via electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
what is it called when plate tectonics move apart?
what is tectonic shift?
Main organs of the nervous system.
What is the spinal cord and brain?
This occurs when light waves match the natural frequencies of a material's electrons, causing the light's energy to be swallowed up and turned into heat.
What is absorption?
A material that slows down or reduces the transfer of thermal energy
What is an insulator?
what is the cloud called that goes 10,000 to 20,000 feet in the sky?
what is a cumulonimbus cloud?
This feature forms when two oceanic plates converge and one subducts.
What is a Trench (or Volcanic Island Arc)?
What is the spinal cord made of?
Nervous tissues and a thin layer of connective tissue, and blood vessels.
This process occurs when white light enters a glass prism and separates into a rainbow because different colors travel at different speeds through the matter.
What is dispersion?
A material that transfers heat very well, such as metals.
What is a conductor?
What is a tornado called that starts over water?
What is a waterspout?
The name for the process where one plate is forced under another?
What is Subduction?
How do reflexes work?
controlled by the brain. But some reflexes are processed in the spinal cord and do not even require the brain for a response.