Earth's Systems
A funnel cloud that comes from severe thunderstorms, is fast forming, and could have windspeeds over 200mph
What is a tornado?
Type of energy that means motion energy.
What is mechanical energy?
How sound travels.
What is a wave/longitudinal wave?
All animals must find _______. They cannot make it for themselves.
What is food?
The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
A type of severe weather that results from a large storm forming over warm ocean water, is slow forming, and brings damaging floods.
What is a hurricane?
The two types of energy that the sun can produce.
What is thermal and light energyy?
This must be present for a wave to move.
What are particles?
The definition of invertebrate.
What is "No bones/no backbone"?
When all rocks can be broken down, formed into new rocks, and then continue through the cycle
What is the rock cycle?
This type of plate boundary moves the Earth's crust away from itself.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
Two things that change in a collision.
What is speed and direction?
The way to increase wavelength.
What is increase the length of the object (like the boat being bigger)?
The 5 groups of vertebrates.
What are reptiles, fish, amphibians, mammals, and birds?
Type of rock that is formed from lava cooling
What is igneous rock?
The layers of the Earth's Crust in order from the outermost to the innermost.
What is Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core?
Define Renewable.
What is something that you can use over and over again without using it up or getting it dirty?
The reason sound cannot travel in space.
What is particles are needed to move sound waves, and space is a vacuum?
The name for the physical adaptation of looking like you are poisonous when you are not. Like a king and coral snake.
What is mimicry?
Type of rock that might have fossils inside of it.
What is a sedimentary rock?
This is the reason the Earth's crust moves.
What is mantle heats and rises up then cools and goes down, grabbing the crust with it?
What are two types of non renewable energy resources?
What are Fossil Fuels and Coal Formation?
Describe the path of sound from your vocal chords to my ears. (Think about receptors too)
What is
1. Vocal Chords vibrate
2. Air particles move back and forth to your ears
3. Ear drum receives vibration.
4. Receptor (ear drum) sends signals to the brain to understand.
The definition of an inherited trait.
What is something you got from your parents or grandparents and passed down from generation to generation?
Fossil Formation
What is the process of something dying, getting covered by sediment, getting pressed down, and slowly being replaced by rock over millions of years?