Physics
What is potential and kinetic energy?
Energy that is stored, and energy in motion.
The total number of particles in an object or substance.
What body caused the sun to form?
Molecular clouds
What is a tectonic plate?
A rigid slab that comprises the Earth's crust
How is an earthflow and landslide relative?
The both similarly behave in a fluid like motion
What is density?
How many packed particles are in an object are
When two objects at different temperatures start to become the same temperature, what is it called?
Thermal equilibrium
What planet caused water-filled asteroids to smash into Earth's hot, dry surface?
Jupiter
What is caused by a divergent plate boundary?
Volcanoes
What are precursor events?
Small events that happen before a massive event
What is the inertia?
The property of matter that an object will stay still unless it is affected by a force.
The transfer of heat through air molecules
Which four major planets formed at the time our world was forming?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
What is subduction?
The movement of a plate when it travels beneath another one.
What is mitigation?
The process of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
What is magnetism?
A phenomenon caused by an electric charge, this results in attractive and repulsive forces between objects.
What form of heat comes through electromagnetic waves?
Radiation
When Earth collided with the planet Theia, what astronomical body formed?
The Moon
What is plate tectonics?
What is the most likely reason for a tsunami?
Earthquakes happening in oceanic plates
What is the difference between weight and mass?
Weight is how strong a gravitational pull is on a person. Mass is the total amount of matter a person has, and it never changes.
What is absolute zero?
The lowest theoretical temperature, in which molecular motion cannot exist and energy is at its lowest.
What impact did stromatolites, a kind of bacteria give to Earth that was very vital?
Oxygen
What is the theory of continental drift?
A hypothesis stated by Alfred Wegener stating that the Earth's continents drift, or move over time.
What device is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes?
Seismograph