Thermal Energy,Temperature,and heat
Stored energy due to the interaction between two objects.
What Is potential energy?
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The only way thermal energy can travel from the sun to earth.
What is radiation?
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Transforms thermal energy into mechanical energy that switch heaters on and off.
What is thermostat?
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Occurs in water nearest the bottom of the beaker.
What is thermal expansion?
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What depends on how fast the particles in the air move.
What is air's temperature?
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The energy an object or a particle has because it is moving.
What is kinetic energy?
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The act of carrying
What is convection?
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The 3 things that are equipped with thermostats.
What is Refrigerators,toasters,thermostats?
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Circulates the waterr in Earth's oceans and other bodies of water.
What is convection currents?
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What is temperature?
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The movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is heat?
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A space that contains little or no matter.
What is a vacuum?
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Made of 2 types of metal joined together and bent into a coil.
What is a Bimettalic Oil?
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Increases the waters volume making it less dense.
What is Heating?
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What scale does water freeze at 273K and boils at 373K.
What is kelvin scale?
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The lowest possible temperature
What is absolute zero?
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Precise and detailed belonging to a distinct category
What is specific?
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Where is chemical energy fuel transformed into thermal energy.
What is a car engine?
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Which scale does water freeze at 0 degrees and boil at 100 degrees.
What is Celsius?
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An object that measures temperature including Celsius, Kelvin, and Farenheit.
What is a thermometer?
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Thermal energy can be transfered through _____
What is radiation?
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A tube with a piston that moves up and down.
What is a cylinder?
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What air condenses as the air rises and cools.
What is water vapor?
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Which scale does the water freeze at 32 degrees and boil at 212 degrees.
What is Farenheit?
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