Vocabulary
This is a device the regulates the temperature of a system
What is a thermostat?
This is the device used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This type of energy transfer involves objects touching
What is conduction?
This is the average kinetic energy of all particles in an object
What is temperature?
These are examples of thermal insulators
What is air, plastic, Styrofoam, and wood?
This is a device that converts electric energy into thermal energy
What is a heating appliance?
These are the scientific units (SI) of temperature
What are degrees Celsius and Kelvin?
These do NOT transfer thermal energy easily
What are insulators?
This is the type of energy (or energies) a moving soccer ball has
What is kinetic and potential?
This is the state of matter in which particles move.
What is all states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas)?
This is a material that allows the flow of thermal energy to occur easily
What is a thermal conductor?
This is what kinetic energy means
This is what happens when a beaker of warm water and a beaker of cold water touch each other
What is the thermal energy from the warm beaker transfers to the cold water beaker until the temperatures even out
This is the type of energy that comes from the sun or a fire
What is radiation?
This is the name for the cracks in the sidewalk
What are expansion joints?
This is movement of particles from a warmer object to a colder object
What is heat?
This is an increase in a material's volume when the temperature increases
What is thermal expansion?
This type of energy transfer involves electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
This is the type of energy used in the Panera ovens to bake 12 trays of cookies at the same time
What is convection?
This is the part of the thermos (insulated water bottle) that decreases the rate of energy transfer
What is empty space (air pocket)?
This is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius
What is specific heat?
In convection, this is what happens to the warm air, and this is what happens to the cold air
What is warm air rises, and cold air sinks?
This type of energy transfer involves a circular pattern of warm and cold air or water
What is convection?
This is the sum of the kinetic energy and potential energy of particles in an object
What is thermal energy?
Thinking of outer space, this is how to describe the difference between temperature and heat