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Energy + Heat
States of Matter
Our Dynamic Earth
Gas Behavior
Vocabulary Showdown
100
The type of energy stored in a battery or a sandwich

What is chemical energy?

100

The state of matter with a definite shape and definite volume

What is a Solid?

100

The thin, rigid outer layer of the Earth that is broken into plates

What is the lithosphere (or crust)?

100

The force that gas exerts on the walls of its container

What is pressure?

100

The transfer of energy when a force moves and object

What is "work"

200

The transfer of thermal energy from a hot object to a cold object

What is Heat?

200

The name for the change of state from a liquid to a gas

What is evaporation/vaporization?
200

The giant, slow-moving "conveyor belts" in the mantle that move the plates

What are Convection Currents?

200

The KMT assumption that explains why gases fill their containers

What is "particles are in constant, random motion"

200

The branch of science that deals with heat and energy transfer

What is "thermodynamics"?

300

The direction heat ALWAYS flows spontaneously

What is from hot to cold

What is from high temps to low temps

300

The theory that explains how particles behave in all states of matter

What is Kinetic Molecular Theory

300

The two main sources of heat that power Earth's internal engine

What are primordial heat and radioactive decay?

300

What happens to the volume of a gas if you increase the pressure on it (at constant temp)

What is "it decreases"
300

The term for a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles

What is "temperature"?

400

The law that states "Energy cannot be created or destroyed"

1st Law of Thermodynamics

400

The condition that causes real gases to deviate from ideal behavior

What is high pressure and low temperature?

400

The primary type of evidence scientists use to infer the structure of Earth's interior

What are Seismic Waves?

400

What happens to the pressure of gas in a rigid container if you heat it up

What is "the pressure increases"?

400
A system that can exchange both energy and matter with its with its surroundings, like an open pot of water.

What is an. "open system"

500

The amount of heat needed to raise 1kg of a substance by 1 degree Celsius

What is Specific Heat?
500

The formula for Ideal Gas Law

What is PV = nRT?

500
The key evidence that tells us that Earth's outer core is liquid

What is S-waves cannot pass through it

500

n= 2.0 moles V= 10.0 L T = 300 K R = 0.0821

What is "4.93 atm"?

500

The term for the natural tendency of energy to spread out

What is "entropy"?