Physics
Energy in motion
What is kinetic energy?
When a planet moves around the sun, we call that circular motion this.
What is an orbit?
This is the layer in the very center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
As you move away from the durface of Earth toward space, air becomes less...?
What is dense?
This US military base was bombed by the Japanese during WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
When electron flow, it creates this type of energy.
What is electricity?
This planet has been recently found to smell like rotten eggs.
What is Uranus?
This is the layer where convection happens to move the tectonic plates.
What is the mantle?
An air mass is defined by these two features.
What are temperature and humidity?
Ms. Nicholas puts this in her coffee.
What is nothing?
When energy changes from one type to another type.
What is energy transformation?
When the moon appears larger in the sky each night, we say it is ...
What is waxing?
When plates move toward one another they create this type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
When different air masses collide they create this.
What is wind?
If you order pie ala mode, you are adding this.
What is ice cream?
Objects in motion stay in motion unless...
What is “acted on by an opposing force.”?
Black holes pull everything in because they have this.
What is a strong gravitational pull?
DAILY DOUBLE: these seismic waves move fastest.
What are P-waves?
Tornadoes form in a Tornado Alley when cool dry air coming over the Rocky Mountains meets this.
What is warm humid air from the Gulf of Mexico?
DAILY DOUBLE: Mt. St. Helen most recent large-scale eruption happened during this year.
What is 1980?
Heat flows from warmer locations to cooler locations so it can do this.
What is find “equilibrium”?
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
When tectonic plates move away from one another underwater, allowing magma to well up and fill in the gaps, it is called this.
What is seafloor spreading?
When burned, fossil fuels release these into the atmosphere, trapping the sun’s heat.
What are greenhouse gases?
The Olympic athlete with the most gold medals.
Who is Michael Phelps?