earth changing crust

Fault: a crack in the crust, whose sides show evidence of motion.

2.Geologist: a scientist who studies Earth's surface.

3.Magma: hot, molten rock deep below Earth's surface.

4.Lava: magma that reaches Earth's surface.

5.Weathering: the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.

6.Erosion: the picking up and carrying away of pieces of rock.

7.Deposition: the dropping off of bits of eroded rock.

8.Meteorite: a chunk of rock from space that strikes a surface ( such as Earth or the Moon ).

earth and its neighboors

Solar system: the sun and the objects that are traveling around it.

2.Planet: any of the eight large bodies that travel around the Sun and shine by reflecting it light.

3.Gravity: a force of attraction, or pull, between any object and any other object around it.

4.Inertia: the tendency of a moving object to keep moving in a straight line.

5.Lithosphere:the hard, outer layer of Earth, about 100 kilometers thick.

6.Crust: the rocky surface that makes up the top of the lithosphere.

7.Resource: any material that helps support life on Earth.

8.Hydrosphere: Earth's water.

matter and energy

Kinetic energy: the energy of a moving object.

2.Potential energy: energy stored in an object or material.

3.Conduction: Movement of energy from a hot  object that comes into contact with a cooler object; the material remains in place.

4.Convenction: movement of energy by the flow of matter from place to place.

5.Radiation: movement of energy in the form of waves that can travel through empty space.

6.Wet cell battery: a battery containing liquid solution that produces the electricity current.

7.Dry cell batery: a battery that uses "dry chemicals" to produce an electric current.

 

chemical changes

Phisical change: a change in size , shape , or state , without forming a new substance.

2. Chemical change: a change in matter that produces a new substance with different properties from the original.

3.Chemical reaction: a chemical change of original substances into one or more new substances.

4.Reactant: one of the original substances before a chemical reaction takes place.

5. Product: one of the new substances produced when a chemical reaction takes place.

vocabulary mixture and solucion

Mixture: two or more parts blended together yet keeping their own properties and not turning into a new substance.

2.Solution: a mixture in which substances are completely blended so that the properties are the same throughout and the substances stay blended.

3.Suspension: a mixture of substances that separate upon standing.

4.Colloid: particles ( or droplets ) large enough to block out light spread throughout another substance.

5.Emulsion: a liquid spread through another liquid.

6.Aerosol: liquid dropsor solid particles spread through a gas.

7.Gel: a solid spread through a liquid.

8.Foam: a gas spread through a liquid or solid.

voabulary solids liquids and gases

1.State of matter: any of the forms matter can exist in.

melting point: the temperature at which a solid changes state into a liquid.

3.Boilling point: the temperature at which a liquid changes state into a gas.

4.Freezing point: the temperature at which a liquid changes state into a solid.

vocabulary 6

Element: a basic building block of matter; a pure substance that cannot be broken down into anything simpler.

2.Compound: a chemical combination of two or more elements into a single substance.

3.Atom: the smallest unit of an element that still has the properties of the element.

4.Proton: a particle with a positive charge in the nucleus of an atom.

5.Neutron: an uncharged particle in the nucleus of an atom.

6.Electron: a particle with a negative charge moving around the nucleus of an atom.

7. Nucleus: the dense center part of an atom.

8. Molecule: a group of more than one atom joined together that acts like a single particle.

vocabulary 5

mass:the amount of matter in an object.

volume:the amount of space an objects takes up.

weight:a measure of the force of gravity betwwen Earth and  an object. 

density:a measure of how tighly packed matter is ;the amount of mass contained in a given volume.

bouyancy:the upward push on an object by the liquid the object is placed in.

conduct: allow heat or electricity to flow through readily.

insulate:not allow heat or electricity to flow through readily