Energy and Work
The form of energy that is stored and has the ability to do work.
What is potential energy?
The unit of measurement of frequency.
What is a hertz?
An event where one tectonic plate that is more dense then the other tectonic plate that is more dense than the other tectonic plate, gets pushed underneath the less denser plate.
What is a subduction zone?
The only color we can not see from a star.
What is green?
The most seismically active area on Earth.
What is the ring of fire?
The term for the ability to do work.
What is energy?
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles are pushed together.
What are compressions?
A hot volcanic mudflow made of ash, rock, and water triggered by volcanic eruptions.
What is lahar?
The gaseous remains of a supernova explosion.
What is a supernova remnant?
The point from which an earthquake starts.
What is the focus?
A factor that describes how much a machine multiplies the input force.
What is mechanical advantage?
A refraction.
What us when sound and light waves pass across a boundary between 2 substances?
The volcano that emerged in 1943 in the cornfield of Dionisio Pulido.
What is Paricutin?
When dividing the incoming light from an object into individual colors, or wavelengths.
What is spectrum?
A visible break or step in the earth's surface caused by a slip along the fault.
What is a fault scarp?
The formula for calculating kinetic energy.
What is KE = 1/2mv^2
The wave medium waves travel the fastest through.
What are solids?
The particles released by a volcano that are emitted from volcanic eruptions that can be hard to detect.
What are aerosols?
The dense core left after a supernova.
What is a neutron star?
The roman numeral that represents the level of Earthquakes described as having "strong" shaking.
What is roman numeral VI (6)?
The Law of Conservation of Energy.
What is energy can't be created or destroyed, it can be transformed from one form to another.
The slower surface traveling waves that cause the most earthquake damage.
What are surface waves?
The part of the earth that has winds that curve to the left in their direction of travel.
What is the southern hemisphere?
This connection is what must be overcome for protons and neutrons to switch identities.
What is the weak force?
The theory explaining how the gradual buildup and release of energy along faults causes earthquakes.
What is the elastic rebound theory?