Earth and Space
builds up the land
What is a destructive force?
wait for directions, use equipment properly, work safely, keep work area neat, ask teacher for help
What are lab safety rules?
oil, natural gas, coal
What are fossil fuels?
uneven heating and cooling of land
What causes wind?
rotates, quakes, weather, layers, rock, soil, craters, mountains, plains, gravitational pull, atmosphere, wind
What are characteristics of Earth?
destroys, breaks down and wears away the Earth's surface
What are destructive forces?
not the actual objects, organisms, events, size, materials or time
What are limitations of models?
formed from dead microorganisms buried under the ocean
What is oil and natural gas?
warms, expands becoming lighter, less dense, less pressure
What is the rising of air or low pressure air mass?
a force caused by gravity's pull on an objects mass; will change on the moon
What is weight?
weathering, growth of plants, dissolving or deposition
What are slow changes to Earth's surface?
measures volume in liters, milliliters
What is a graduated cylinder?
forms when plants in swamps and marshes are buried under sediment
What is coal?
cool, heavier, more dense, more pressure, sinking air
always created on the opposite side of the object from the light source
What is a shadow?
volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, mudslides, floods
What are rapid changes to Earth's surface?
measures mass in grams or milligrams
What is a triple beam balance?
resources that form so slowly that they take millions of years to create
What are nonrenewable resources?
the general pattern of weather in a certain part of the world over many years
new moon, waxing, waning, full moon
What is the lunar cycle?
sediment is deposited, layers pile up, pressure builds as layers are added, heat from Earth increases
problem, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion
What is the Scientific method?
wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, biofuels
What are alternative energies/renewable resources?
a line with half circles or triangles colored red or blue
What are symbols of a warm or cold front?
the tilt of Earth on its axis
What causes seasons?