Vocabulary
A group of parts that work together as a whole.
What is a system?
This is the total amount of kinetic energy in a substance
What is thermal energy?
This lets heat and electricity pass through easily.
What is a conductor?
Give an example of thermal energy transfer
What is...
conductometer
butter boat
sun warming our skin
A campfire used to warm your hands is this form of energy.
What is radiation?
What is temperature?
This is the energy of motion or the energy at work.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the name for a type of energy that causes atoms to move quicker.
What is thermal energy or heat energy?
Give an example of conduction
What is...
a pot on the burner of a stove
an oven mit getting warmer carrying a hot baking dish
a spoon sitting in a hot bowl of soup
This energy occurs at the top of a hill in a roller coaster
What is vacuum?
This type of energy is present in a rock at the top of a hill?
What is potential energy?
This does not lets heat and electricity pass through easily.
What is an insulator?
Give an example of convection
What is...
a bowl of oatmeal cooling
water boiling in a pot
hot air balloon inflating
This is the transfer of heat energy through direct contact.
What is conduction?
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
What is the flashlight?
Describe what happens when you heat up particles
What is they move faster and bump into one another?
Give an example of radiation
What is...
the heat from a fire warm your hands
the heat of the sun evaporating water from a lake
a microwave heating up a slice of pizza
This happens in loops and curves of a roller coaster
What is kinetic energy?
This energy is sometimes called solar energy or light energy.
What is radiation?
Describe what happens when you cool particles
What is they slow down and are spread out?
Give an example of how mass affects thermal energy transfer
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
baby bear's porridge cools quickest because it had the least amount of mass
This is the transfer of heat energy through circulating liquid or gas.
What is convection?