Heat
Types of Heat Transfer
States of Matter
Phase Changes
Science Trivia
100

Movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.

What is heat?
100

The transfer of thermal energy between materials because of collisions between particles. 

What is conduction?

100

Everything in the universe is made of it.

What is matter?

100
What can be added so that matter can change form or state.

What is thermal energy?

100

There is enough of this in an average person's body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back -- 17 times.

What is DNA?

200

The energy an object or particle has because it is moving.

What is kinetic energy?

200

The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles from one part of a material to another.

What is convection?

200

These are the four main states of matter.

What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
200

Change of state of a liquid into a gas. 

What is vaporization?

200

The average human body carries ten times more of these cells than human cells

What is bacterial cells?

300

Stored energy.

What is potential energy?

300

Transfer of thermal energy from one material to another by electromagnetic waves.

What is radiation?

300

Matter that has no definite shape or volume and whose particles are in constant, fast, and random motion.

What is a gas?

300
Change of state of a gas to a solid without going through the liquid state. 

What is deposition?

300

It is over 2,000 kilometers long and is the largest living structure on Earth.

What is The Great Barrier Reef?

400

The average kinetic energy of the particles that make up a material.

What is temperature?

400

Decrease in a material's volume when the temperature is decreased.

What is thermal contraction?

400

Matter that has a rigid structure where particles vibrate in place. 

What is a solid?

400

Vaporization that occurs only at the surface of a liquid.

What is evaporation?

400

Some metals are so reactive they explode when they come in contact with this.

What is water?

500
The sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of all the particles that make up an object.

What is thermal energy?

500

The rate at which heating occurs depends on it.

What is temperature difference?

500

Matter that takes the shape of its container but has the same volume no matter what.

What is a liquid?

500

Kind of energy that the molecules have during changes in phase. 

What is kinetic energy?

500

About 20% of the Earth's oxygen comes from here.

What is the Amazon Rainforest?

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