Heat is always transferred from _______________________ areas.
warmer
On the _______________________ temperature scale, there are no negative numbers.
kelvin
The only form of heat transfer that doesn’t require matter is _______________________.
radiation
The inside window pane in your house feels very cold to touch on a winter night. Why does it feel cold?
The warm from the inside is being conducted to the outside.
Most of the world uses the _______________________ temperature scale.
celsius
On a sunny day, you return to your car after a ball game. The inside of the car is very hot. How does the car get so warm?
radiation
Specific heat is measured in _______________________.
joules
The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object is called _______________________.
heat
Most _______________________ are good conductors of heat.
metals
_______________________ does not conduct heat well.
insulators
The expanding of matter when it is heated is known as _______________________.
thermal expansion
The movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another is called a _______________________.
convection current