This theory helps explain some physical properties of matter, like temperature and state.
What is the KINETIC THEORY OF MATTER?
Material that resists the transfer of heat.
What is an INSULATOR?
Which would have a higher temperature, an ice cube or boiling water?
What is BOILING WATER?
Thermal energy depends on these 2 factors.
What is TEMPERATURE & MASS?
Classify if these are CONDUCTORS or INSULATORS:
Copper pipes, Oven mitt, Sweater, Baking Sheet, Frying Pan Bottom, Frying Pan Handle
Conductors: Copper pipes, Baking Sheet, Frying Pan Bottom
Insulator: Oven Mitt, Sweater, Frying Pan Handle
Transfer of energy through fluids like gas or liquid.
What is CONVECTION?
The state when the transfer of heat between 2 objects ceases.
What is THERMAL EQUALIBRIUM?
Which would have more thermal energy, a pot of boiling water or an iceberg?
What is an ICEBERG? (More potential energy of particles)
Draw particles from a solid state, liquid state, and gaseous state.
Pg 93
These could be great insulators for homes in Michigan.
What are Foam, Double Glazed Windows (pg115), Fiberglass, and Plastics?
Transfer of thermal energy through electromagnetic waves.
What is RADIATION?
Material that conducts heat easily, like metal.
What is a CONDUCTOR?
If you had equal amounts of water molecules in the following states: liquid, steam/gas, ice, which has the highest amount of thermal energy?
What is the GAS/STEAM?
Can heat be transferred between gases?
What is NO?
Why does insulation help homes in winter and summer?
What is because the insulation prevents warming from the outside in summer, and traps heat within the home in the winter?
Total amount of potential and kinetic energy in all the particles in a substance.
What is THERMAL ENERGY?
The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.
What is TEMPERATURE?
This is how cold milk cools coffee.
What is that the hot molecules in the coffee transfer their energy to the cooler molecules, warming them. The mixture will eventually hit thermal equalibrium, where the temperature is between the 2 original liquids.
This remains the same during evaporation.
What is AVERAGE KINETIC ENERGY (TEMP)?
Microwaves heat food in this manner.
What is RADIATION?
When particles on the surface of a liquid gain enough heat energy to leave the surface of a liquid.
What is EVAPORATION?
The transfer of thermal energy between 2 objects that are touching.
What is CONDUCTION?
There is a pot of boiling water, and more heat is added. Explain what happens.
What is a CHANGE OF STATE? (Liquid to Gas)
Draw the phase change diagram.

Categorize as CONDUCTION, CONVECTION, or RADIATION:
1) Ice cooling in your hand
2)Hot air rising, cooling, and falling
3) Heat from a fire
4) Touching a stove and getting burned
5) Handle on a pot of boiling water
6) Heat from a lightbulb
7)Warming your neck with a heating pad
8) Roasting marshmallows over a fire
9) Snowman melting in the snow
10) Laying in the sun
Conduction: 1, 4, 5, 7
Convection: 2, 8, 9
Radiation: 3, 6, 10