Misc. 1
What is energy transferred in waves or rays, and can go through empty space called?
Radiation
Rocks that are compacted and cemented together are called what?
Sedimentary rock
What is water turning into a gas called?
Evaporation
Liquid rock under the surface is called. . .
Magma
What is an involuntary reaction to a stimulus called?
A Reflex
These feel temperature, pressure, and pain
Nerve endings
What material conducts heat the best?
Metal
What is gas turning into water called?
Condensation
Liquid rock on the earth's surface is called. . .
Lava
What is your largest organ?
Skin
Peristalsis is when the muscles in your esophagus and intestines does what to your food?
Slowly pushes it forward
There are 2 types of waves. One is transverse, where you shake a spring back and forth to make an ess shape, and this type, where you hit the end of the spring to watch the small wave travel back and forth from end to end.
Compressional
What is a liquid turning into a solid called?
Freezing or crystallization
What is the bending of light or sound energy due to the material it is travelling in called?
diffraction
What is an individual nerve cell called?
Neuron (motor neurons, inter neurons)
What is the carrying of sediment away from the rock it came off of called?
Erosion
What is it called when you yell out and all of the sound waves are reflected back to you?
Echo
What structure is where is water and waste stored in a cell?
Vacuole
What travels 186, 290 miles per second?
Light energy
What 2 main organ are contained in your respiratory system?
Heart and lungs
What organelle contains all of your DNA?
Nucleus
What is it called when any energy hits something and doesn't bounce off of it, but just stays in it
Absorption
What is Pahoehoe?
Liquidy lava that flows like water
What is a great insulator?
glass, plastic, air, paper, rubber, etc
What are the tubes called that carry blood away from your heart?
Arteries