States of Matter
When particles are in this state they do not have a definite shape or volume, and expand to fill the container they’re in.
What is a gas?
The process of a solid gaining thermal energy (heat) to become a liquid.
What is melting?
Any material that easily transfers heat.
What is a conductor?
This atmospheric layer separates the rest of the atmosphere from outer space. It is the largest of the layers of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
This process by which energy from the Sun causes water to change from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
When particles are in this state they display a definite shape and definite volume. The particles are also compact (or close together) and vibrate, slowly, back and forth.
What is a solid?
The process of a liquid gaining thermal energy (heat) to become a gas.
Any material in which heat does not flow easily.
What is an insulator?
This is the middle layer of Earth's atmosphere -- meteors burn up within it, due to friction (caused by collisions between gases and the meteor's particles).
What is the mesosphere?
The process by which water vapor, within the atmosphere cools enough to changes back into a liquid.
(Hint: Clouds form because of this)
What is condensation?
Particles within this state have a definite volume, but do not have a definite shape—their shape changes, depending on their container.
What is a liquid?
The process of a liquid losing thermal energy (heat) to become a solid.
What is freezing?
The transfer of thermal energy (heat) by direct contact.
What is conduction?
The process of water droplets, within clouds, colliding, forming bigger drops, and falling to Earth.
What is precipitation?
This gas law states that pressure of a gas increases if the volume decreases and pressure of a gas decreases if the volume increases, when temperature is constant.
What is Boyle's Law?
The process of a solid gaining an extreme amount of thermal energy (heat) to become a gas, without ever becoming a liquid.
What is sublimation?
The transfer of thermal energy (heat) through electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
This sub layer consists of electrically charged particles, and extends from the top of the Mesosphere, through the Thermosphere, to the bottom of the Exosphere.
(Hint: Humans can see this sub layer in the arctic regions of the planet)
What is the Ionosphere (or Aurora)?
Classification of world climates is commonly based on annual and monthly averages of these two non-living environmental factors.
What are temperature and precipitation?
This gas law states that the volume of a gas increases with increasing temperature, and the volume of a gas decreases with decreasing temperature, if the pressure is constant.
What is Charles's Law?
The process of a gas losing an extreme amount of thermal energy (heat) to become a solid, with ever becoming a liquid.
What is deposition?
The transfer of thermal energy (heat) by the movement of molecules from one part of a material to another.
What is convection?
This sub layer sits within the Stratosphere, and protects the Earth from the Sun's UV radiation.
What is the Ozone Layer?
This is the name of a specific amount of water that makes it back to the earth, and underground, at the completion of the water cycle.
What is groundwater?