Thermal Energy
Which has more thermal energy...and iceberg or a pot of boiling water?
What is an iceberg?
Transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves
What is Radiation
Objects that do not make good conductors may be good?
What are insulators?
A resting soccer ball has______energy
What is potential
True or False:
Heat always flows from warmer objects to cooler objects.
True!
This object measures temperature.
What is thermometer
Heat rising and cooling to form currents in a fluid
What is convection?
Material through which thermal energy flows easily.
What are conductors
Temperature is the average ______ energy of particles
Kinetic
Everything has what type of energy?
What is Thermal Energy
Often times, people confuse thermal energy and _____, thinking they are the same thing, but they are not.
What is heat?
what has more thermal energy:
Lake Loudon
or
A cup hot of coffee
What is Lake Loudon?
Transfer of thermal energy between materials by collision of particles. (If the particles are colliding, they are touching.)
What is Conduction?
______ currents happen in liquids and gases
What are convection currents
The Three ways thermal energy is transferred are...
What is Radiation, Conduction, Convection
What happens to the particles in an object (solid, liquid or gas) when it is exposed to heat?
What is the particles will speed up and spread out?
Which of these states of matter have the fastest moving particles? Solid, liquid, or gas?
Gas!
Radiation travels this way...
What are waves?
Radiation is
what is heat transfer through electromagnetic waves
True or false: Metals are good conductors of thermal energy
True
Which scale do scientists use to measure temperature?
What is Celcius?
One of the best conductors
What is copper (or metals)?
What type of heat transfer is it when you hold a hand warmer in your cold hands to warm them?
What is conduction?
True or False: Scientist have figured out everything there is to know about energy.
False.
True or False:
Thermal energy is only dependent upon temperature.
False. Mass plays a big part in thermal energy.
absolute zero
What is when all particle motion stop?
2 ice cubes are present. Cube A has a volume of four cubic centimeters. Cube B has a volume of two cubic centimeters. If the cubes do not touch each other, you can conclude ...
Cube A has more thermal energy than cube B
What is the US standard unit for temperature?
What is Fahrenheit.
opposite of conductors
what are insulators
What is energy?
The ability to do work or cause change.