Energy Transfers
Temperature
Types of Energy
Energy
100
transfer of energy as heat through direct contact
What is conduction?
100
the measure of the average kinetic energy in an object
What is temperature?
100
the sum of an object's kinetic and potential energy
What is mechanical energy?
100
stored energy, depends on gravitational position
What is potential energy?
200
energy transferred as heat through a liquid or gas
What is convection?
200
an instrument used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
the energy stored in food, when bonds between atoms break
What is chemical energy?
200
energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
300
energy transferred as heat through electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
300
the scale used commonly around the world and by scientists to measure temperature
What is the Celsius scale?
300
the total kinetic energy of the particles in an object
What is thermal energy?
300
states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed
What is the law of conservation of energy?
400
a material that transfers heat well
What is a conductor?
400
the scale used commonly in the US to measure temperature
What is the Fahrenheit scale?
400
energy transferred through electromagnetic waves
What is electromagnetic energy?
400
states that all particles that make up matter are constantly in motion
What is the kinetic theory of matter?
500
the motion due to density differences that result from temperature differences- warm air rises, cold air sinks
What is convection current?
500
the scale used commonly by physicists
What is the Kelvin scale?
500
energy released from the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
500
a group of objects that transfer energy between one another
What is a closed system?
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