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Global Warming
What is Global Warming |
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| The gradual increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere, believed to be due to the greenhouse effect |
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Global Warming
Whhat is Carbon Dioxide |
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| A colorless odorless gas that causes damage to the atomsphere |
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Global Warming
What is The Green House Effect |
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| Is when the suns rays gets trapped in the lower atmosphere |
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Global Warming
What are The Green House Gasses |
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| A gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation |
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Active Earth
What is the Mantle |
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| The mantle is the second lair of the earth's interior |
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Active Earth
What is the Crust |
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| The crust is the first lair of the earth's interior Its the lair we live on |
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Active Earth
What is the Inner and Outer Core |
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| The Inner and Outer core are the third and fourth of the earth's interior |
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Active Earth
What is The Asthenosphere |
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| Is a portion of mantle in the upper part it is involved with plate tectonics |
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Active Earth
What is The Lithosphere |
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| solid portion of Earth: the solid outer layer of the Earth above the asthenosphere, consisting of the crust and upper mantle |
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Active Earth
What is Convection Current |
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| It is in the Geosphere and it causes the plates to move |
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Active Earth
Who is Alfred Wegner |
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He was a German scientist
who came up with the theory of continental drift |
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Active Earth
What was the theory of continental drift |
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| The theory of continental drift is that people believe that the continents were all together and that they spread apart with evidence of that they fond the same kind of dinosaurs on opposite continents. |
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Active Earth
What are Convergent Plate Boundaries |
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| Its when two plates are coming together |
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Active Earth
What are Divergent Plate Boundaries |
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| Divergent plate boundaries are when two plates are moving away from each other |
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Active Earth
What are Transform Plate Boundaries |
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| Transform Plate Boundaries are when two plates are rubbing against each other |
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Active Earth
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics |
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| is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. |
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Active Earth
What are Earthquakes |
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| shaking of Earth's crust: a violent shaking of the Earth's crust that may cause destruction to buildings and results from the sudden release of tectonic stress along a fault line or from volcanic activity. |
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Active Earth
What is the Elastic Rebound Theory |
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| is an explanation for how energy is spread during earthquakes. |
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Active Earth
What is EarthQuake Energy |
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| The amplitude of a seismic signal is proportional to the energy released in an earthquake. |
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Active Earth
How do you locate a Earthquake |
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| Geologists use seismic wave charts and A Seismograph to determine the earthquake epicenter. |
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Active Earth
What are Primary Waves |
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| a seismic wave that creates vibrations parallel to its direction |
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Active Earth
What are Secondary Waves |
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| a wave that can travel through solids but not liquids |
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Active Earth
What are Surface Waves |
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| Surface waves are important in seismology, as a way of describing certain waves caused by earthquakes as well as in radio to describe the propagation of radio waves |
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Active Earth
What is a Seismograph |
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| an instrument that detects the presence of an earthquake and measures and records its magnitude |
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Active Earth
What is a Epicenter |
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| Is the center of the earthquake |
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Active Earth
What is Focus |
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| Are earthquakes that happen 70 to 300 KM underground |
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Active Earth
What is the Mercalli Scale |
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| The Mercalli Scale is a scale for measuring the intensity of earthquakes, ranging from 1 to 12, in which 1 denotes a weak earthquake and 12 one that causes complete destruction. |
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Active Earth
What is the Richter Scale |
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| is a scale from 1 to 10 used to measure the severity of earthquakes according to the amount of energy released, with a higher number indicating stronger tremors. |
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Active Earth
What are some Earthquake Hazards |
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| Flooding Ground Displacement and Fire are a couple |
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Active Earth
What are Volcanoes |
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| Volcanoes are a naturally occurring opening in the surface of the Earth through which molten, gaseous, and solid material is ejecte |
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Active Earth
What is the Ring of Fire |
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| The Ring of Fire is an area surrounding the Pacific Ocean that is notorious for frequent volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. |
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Active Earth
What is Composite Volcano |
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| are formed by alternating layers of lava and rock fragments. |
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Active Earth
What is Shield Volcano |
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| A volcano that resembles a shield for its big size but low profile |
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Active Earth
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano |
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| is a steep conical hill of volcanic fragments that accumulate around and downwind from a volcanic vent. |
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Active Earth
What are Volcano Hazards |
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| Some Volcanic Hazards are Volcanic Gases and Lava Flow |
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Violent Weather
What is the Troposphere |
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| The lowest region of the atmosphere, extending from the earth's surface to a height of about 6–10 km |
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Violent Weather
What is the Stratosphere |
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| The layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere, extending to about 50 km above the earth's surface |
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Violent Weather
What is the Ozone Layer |
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| the layer of the upper atmosphere where most atmospheric ozone is concentrated, from about 8 to 30 miles above the earth, with the maximum ozone concentration occurring at an altitude of about 12 miles. |
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Violent Weather
What is the Mesosphere |
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| The region of the earth's atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere |
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Violent Weather
What is the Thermosphere |
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| the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere. |
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Violent Weather
What is the Ionosphere |
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| The layer of the earth's atmosphere that contains a high concentration of ions and free electrons and is able to reflect radio waves. |
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Violent Weather
What is the Water Cycle |
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| Evaporation,Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation,and Runoff |
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Violent Weather
Forms of Precipitation |
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Violent Weather
What is Humidity |
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| A quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or a gas. |
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Violent Weather
What is Dew Point |
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| The atmospheric temperature below which water droplets begin to condense and dew can form. |
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Violent Weather
What is High Pressure |
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| is an area where the atmospheric pressure is greater than that of the surrounding area |
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Violent Weather
What is Low Pressure |
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| is an area where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of the area surrounding it. |
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Violent Weather
What are Isobars |
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| A line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or on average over a given period |
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Violent Weather
What is a Isotherm |
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| A line on a map connecting points having the same temperature at a given time or on average over a given period. |
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Violent Weather
What are the Four main type of Air Masses |
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| Maritime Tropical, Continental Tropical, maritime Polar, and Continental Polar |
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Violent Weather
What is a Warm Front |
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| The boundary of an advancing mass of warm air. |
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Violent Weather
What is a Cold Front |
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| The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air. |
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Violent Weather
What is a Stationary Front |
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| A stationary front is a boundary between two different air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other |
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Violent Weather
What is a Status Cloud |
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Violent Weather
What is a Cumulus Cloud |
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| a type of low-level cloud that can have noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges |
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Violent Weather
What is a Cirrus Cloud |
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| are a genus of atmospheric clouds generally characterized by thin, wispy strands |
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Violent Weather
What is Climate |
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| is the pattern of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, |
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Violent Weather
What is Weather |
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| is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. |
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Violent Weather
What are the 3 main climate zones in the world |
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| Polar, Temperate,and Tropical |
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Violent Weather
What is a Biome? |
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| are climatically and geographically defined as similar climatic conditions on the Earth, such as communities of plants, animals, and soil |
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Violent Weather
What is a Desert Biome |
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| Is a Biome in the desert areas |
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Violent Weather
What is a Forest Biome |
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| its a Biome in the Forest |
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Violent Weather
What is a Grassland Biome |
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| Its a Biome in the Grassland |
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Violet Weather
What is a Tundra Biome |
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| a Biome thats in the Tundra |
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Violent Weather
What are the main ingredients to a thunderstorm |
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| are Instability, Wind Shear Lifting Moisture |
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Violent Weather
What are a thunderstorms life stages |
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| Cumulus, Mature, Dissipating |
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Violent Weather
What is a single cell thunderstorm |
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| They are short lived and while hail and gusty wind can develop, these occurrences are typically not severe. |
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Violent Weather
What is a multi-cell thunderstorm |
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| in a multi-cell cluster, behaves as a single cell, the prevailing atmospheric conditions are such that as the first cell matures, it is carried downstream by the upper level winds and a new cell forms upwind of the previous cell to take its place. |
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Violent Weather
What is a Super Cell |
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| Super-cell thunderstorms are a special kind of single cell thunderstorm that can persist for many hours may cause tornadoes |
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Violent Weather
What is the Squall Line |
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| Sometimes thunderstorms will form in a line which can extend laterally for hundreds of miles. These "squall lines" can persist for many hours and produce damaging winds and hail. |
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Violent Weather
What is Lightning |
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| flash of light in storm: flashes of light seen in the sky when there is a discharge of atmospheric electricity in the clouds or between clouds and the ground, usually occurring during a thunderstorm |
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Violent Weather
What is Thunder |
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| a loud noise following lightning: a loud rumbling noise caused by the rapid expansion of air suddenly heated by lightning |
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Violent Weather
What is the fujita |
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| tornado damage scale: a scale used to rank tornadoes by the amount of damage they do to human-made structures and natural objects. |
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Violent Weather
What and Where is Tornado Alley |
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| its land in the mid west that gets a lot of tornadoes the states in it are Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and parts of Colorado and Missouri |
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Violent Weather
What is a Hurricane |
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| severe storm: a severe tropical storm with torrential rain and extremely strong winds. |
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Violent Weather
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale |
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| standard scale for rating the severity of hurricanes as a measure of the damage they cause |
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Violent Weather
What is the Surface Observation Symbol |
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Energy
What is Kinetic Energy |
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Definition
| energy of body caused by motion |
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Energy
What is the formula for calculating kinetic energy |
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Energy
What is Potential Energy |
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Definition
| energy stored in body or system |
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Energy
What is the formula for calculating potential energy |
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Violent Weather
What is a Tornado |
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| column of swirling wind: an extremely destructive funnel-shaped rotating column of air that passes in a narrow path over land |
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Energy
What is Chemical Energy |
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Definition
| energy of chemical reactions: the energy released or absorbed in a chemical reaction during the decomposition or formation of compounds |
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Energy
What is Mechanical Energy |
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| Mechanical energy is the sum of energy in a mechanical system. Including both kinetic and potential energy |
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Energy
What is Nuclear Energy |
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Definition
| energy from nuclear fission or fusion: the energy released by nuclear fission or fusion |
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Energy
What is Electrical Energy |
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| the flow of electric charge through a conductor |
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Energy
What is Thermal Energy |
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Definition
| The total energy of a substance particles due to their movement or vibrations |
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Energy
What is Thermal Energy |
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Definition
| The total energy of a substance particles due to their movement or vibrations |
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Energy
What is Energy Transformation |
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| Energy transformation or energy conversion is the process of changing one form of energy to another. |
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Energy
What are Fossil fuels |
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| fuel derived from prehistoric organisms: any carbon-containing fuel derived from the decomposed remains of prehistoric plants and animals, e.g. coal, peat, petroleum, and natural gas |
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Energy
What are Coal, Oil And Natural Gas |
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Energy
What is Alternative Energy |
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| naturally generated energy source: any form of energy obtained from the Sun, wind, waves, or another natural renewable source, in contrast to energy generated from fossil fuels |
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Energy
What is Solar Energy |
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| Energy that uses the sun a power |
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Energy
What is Wind Energy |
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| Energy that uses wind as t main source of power |
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Energy
What is Geothermal energy |
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Definition
| heat energy from ground water: energy in the form of heat obtained from hot circulating ground water |
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Energy
What is Hydroelectric Energy
WHa |
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| electrical power generated by falling water. |
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Energy
What is Biomass Energy |
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Definition
| Energy from organic materials |
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Energy
What is Tidal Energy |
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Definition
| Energy that uses tides to create energy |
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Energy
What is Renewable Energy |
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Definition
| Energy that can be easily renewed and reused |
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Energy
What is Non Renewable energy |
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Definition
| Energy that cant easily renewed and reused |
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Energy
What is a electron |
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| elementary particle: a stable negatively charged elementary particle with a small mass that is a fundamental constituent of matter and orbits the nucleus of an atom |
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Energy
What is Static Electricity |
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Definition
| stationary electric charge: a stationary electric charge that builds up on an insulated object such as a capacitor or a thundercloud |
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Energy
What is Static charge |
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Definition
| is electrical charge that is fixed in position in some material, as opposed to current |
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Energy
What is a conductor |
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| is an object or type of material which permits the flow of electric charges in one or more directions. |
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Energy
What is an insulator |
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| is an object or type of material which does not permit the flow of electric charges in one or more directions. |
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Definition
| nit of electric charge: the SI unit of electric charge equal to the amount of charge transported by a current of one ampere in one second. |
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| unit of electric potential difference: the unit of electromotive force and electric potential difference equal to the difference between two points in a circuit carrying one ampere of current and dissipating one watt of power. |
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| measure of the degree to which an electrical component opposes the passage of current. It is the ratio of the potential difference |
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Energy
What is current electricity |
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| is a flow of electric charge. |
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Definition
| electrical law: the law of physics that states that electric current is directly proportional to the voltage applied to a conductor and inversely proportional to that conductor's resistance |
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Energy
The formula for Resistance |
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Energy
What is the formula for Current |
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Energy
what is the formula for Voltage |
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Energy
What is a Series Circuit |
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| is a circuit where there is only one path from the source through all of the loads and back to the source. |
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Energy
What is a parrllel circuit |
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| is an electric circuit with multiple pathways between the beginning and end. |
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