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Temperature
Heat Transfer
100
What form of energy travels as waved through space?
Electromagnetic Energy
100
What is the measure of how hot or cold something is?
Temperature
100
When does a pendulum have the greatest PE?
At the top of its swing/Starting position
100
What is the freezing point of water in degrees Fahrenheit?
32 degrees
100
What is the transfer of heat from one substance to another by direct contact?
Conduction
200
What form of energy is stored in food as fuel?
Chemical Energy
200
What is energy that is in motion?
Kinetic Energy
200
What does gravity equal?
9.8 m/s/s
200
Which temperature scale has a "true" absolute zero?
Kelvin
200
What is the heat transfer from energy transmitted in the form of waves or rays?
Radiation
300
Which potential form of energy is stored in objects that stretch or compress?
Elastic Energy
300
What is the circular motion caused by heat warming and rising then cooling and falling called? They are responsible for weather and wind?
Convection Currents
300
Complete the phrase: Friction creates _____________
Heat
300
What is the transfer of thermal energy from warmer to cooler called?
Heat Transfer
300
What is the type of heat transfer through a fluid caused bby molecular motion?
Convection
400
What form of energy can be both kinetic and potential either in a wire or found in batteries?
Electrical Energy
400
What are the two types of Potential Energies?
Gravitational Elastic
400
What is the equation for PE?
PE = m*G*h
400
What is the boiling point of water in degrees Celsius?
100 degrees
400
A melting snowman is an example of what type of heat transfer?
Radiation
500
What is the energy of moving particles?
Thermal Energy
500
What is the physics definition of temperature?
Measure of how much kinetic energy is in an object's particles.
500
State the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transferred.
500
When an object is at absolute zero, its particles __________
are not moving have no kinetic energy
500
Hot vents at the bottom of the ocean are an example of what type of heat transfer?
Convection
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