Science final review

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Stored energy due to position or shape?

Potential Energy

Energy in motion?

Kinetic Energy

Law that energy can't be created or destroyed?

Law of Conservation of Energy

Heat transfer by contact?

Conduction

Heat transfer by fluid movement?

Convection

Heat transfer by waves (like the Sun)?

Radiation

Atomic number tells you what?

Number of protons

Negative particles in an atom?

Electrons

Nucleus contains what?

Protons and neutrons

Particles in a solid move...?

Slowly, tightly packed

Boiling point: what change?

Liquid → Gas

Melting point: what change?

Solid → Liquid

Substance you start with?

Reactant

Substance you end with?

Product

Mass is conserved?

Yes — same before and after

Newton’s 1st Law?

Object in motion stays in motion, an object at rest stays at rest.

Newton’s 2nd Law formula?

F = ma (Force = mass × acceleration)

Series circuit — one bulb goes out?

All go out because there is only one way of flow

Material that lets current flow easily?

Conductor

Wave that moves particles perpendicular to wave direction?

Transverse wave

Crest of a wave?

top of the wave

Trough of a wave?

bottom of a wave

What is wavelength

the distance between complete crests or complete troughs

what is amplitude?

The height of the wave from the resting point (middle) to the crest (top) or trough (bottom)