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ENERGY - Temperature and Heat
Tough Energy Words
Transfer of Heat
100
energy that moves objects
What is mechanical energy?
100
Made of several layers of light-sensitive materials, which convert sunlight directly into electrical energy.
What is a solar cell?
100
Units that temperature in measured with.
What is a degree?
100
Amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree C.
What is a calorie?
100
Process that moves energy from one object to another when they are physically touching each other
What is conduction?
200
energy that results from the vibration of particles in a solid, liquid, or gas.
What is sound energy?
200
Stored energy that an object has due to its potential to fall.
What is potential energy?
200
Used to measure temperature of air, water, etc.
What is a thermometer?
200
This is the standard scientific unit in which energy is measured?
What is a joule?
200
Materials that transfer energy easily e.g. metals
What is a conductor?
300
Energy that is stored in the chemical composition of matter.
What is chemical energy?
300
Energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
300
The measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles in an object.
What is temperature?
300
Amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree C.
What is specific heat?
300
A material that doesn't transfer energy easily.
What is an insulator?
400
Energy transferred through space from the sun to the earth.
What is electromagnetic energy?
400
Measurement of usable energy an energy conversion
What is energy efficiency?
400
The flow of energy from an object at a higher temperature to an object at a lower temperature.
What is heat?
400
Apple pie filling is a liquid that takes lots of energy to heat up and cools very slowly.
What is a substance that has a HIGH specific heat?
400
Process where energy is transferred through gases or liquids.
What is convection?
500
Center of an atom - its nucleus - is the source
What is nuclear energy?
500
States that energy can neither be created or destroyed
What is law of consevation of energy?
500
The total random kinetic energy particles in an object.
What is thermal energy?
500
The crust of an apple pie can cool down quickly.
What is a substance that has a LOW specific heat?
500
Energy that travels as electromagnetic waves such as visible light and microwaves.
What is radiation?
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