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Large fires in natural areas, which spread quickly due to dry and dead plants, often made worse in a drought

wild fires

Unusually long period of low or no rainfall, causing water shortages

drought

Compressed remains of dead organisms that can be burned to release energy including methane (natural gas), coal and oil.

fossil fuels

The burning of materials to produce carbon dioxide and water

combustion

Organelle where photosynthesis happen

chloroplast

Organelle where respiration happen

mitochondria

Plants acts as a natural way of storing carbon dioxide. They are called ______

sink

A plant that lived on Pangea but became extinct over 175 million years ago; fossils found today provide evidence for plate movement.

glossopteris

A type of rock that contains minerals that can be magnetised. Movement of these rocks is a strong evident of plate tectonic movement.

basalt

Layer of the earth that is not a runny liquid like water that can flow slowly and make the tectonic plates move

mantle

Movement of heated liquid particles rising upwards and particles that are cooling falling downwards

convection current

supercontinent on Earth that broke apart about 175 million years ago

Pangea

A device used to view oscillations of waves

oscilloscope

High frequency waves have _______________ wavelength

short

Frequency is measured in (unit)

hertz

Amplitude is measured in (unit)

meter

It depends on the sound wave’s energy and tells the loudness or quietness of a sound

amplitude

This is what happens when two or more waves meet and their effects are added together

interference

The lowest point of a wave

trough

The highest point of a wave

crest