Scales
Temperature
States
Thermometer
pot pourri
100
Scale used in Canada
What is Celsius
100
Normal human body temperature.
What is about 37 degrees Celsius?
100
The three main states of matter.
What are solid, liquid and gas?
100
Best choice for measuring boiling water.
What is a labratory thermometer?
100
These particles take up as much space as they are given.
What are gas particles?
200
Scale used in the US
What is Farenheit?
200
Average room temperature.
What is between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius?
200
The fourth state of matter.
What is plasma?
200
Used for measuring extremely high heat.
What is a thermocouple?
200
The average energy of particles in a substance.
What is the temperature?
300
Where a thermometer is placed when you are beginning to calibrate it.
What is an ice bath?
300
Temperature at which water boils when you are at sea level.
What is 100 degrees Celsius?
300
State in which the particles have a fixed shape and are moving the most slowly.
What is solid?
300
It has a very limited scale so it is more precise.
What is a clinical thermometer?
300
Number of degrees you take off the boiling point of water for every 1000m abive sea level.
What is three
400
The two reference points between which the rest of the scale is divided evenly.
What are 0 degrees Celsius and 100 degrees Celsius?
400
Temperature at which all particle movement ceases.
What is absolute zero ( -273.15 degrees Celsius or 0 K)?
400
What particles do when heat is added.
What is expand?
400
This type of thermometer can be found in your house.
What is a bimetallic strip?
400
Type of thermometer most people have at home.
What is a computerized clinical thermometer?
500
Temperature scale created by William Thomson.
What is the Kelvin scale?
500
Temperature at which water boils when you are 3500 m above sea level.
What is 89.5 degrees Celsius?
500
Reason fro particles contracting.
What is heat being removed.
500
These colors represent very high heat using this thermometer.
What are bright colors using an infrared thermometer?
500
What scientists were studying when they discovered absolute zero.
What is the way particles in a gas behave?
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