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Heating Up
Hot! Hot! Hot!
Insulator or Conductor?
Running out of Energy
Energy Odd and Ends
100
The transfer of thermal energy through the movement of a liquid or a gas is this
What is convection?
100
The tool used to measure the average kinetic energy of particles in a sample of matter
What is thermometer?
100
A material that transfers thermal energy poorly.
What is insulator?
100
Thermal is a form of this.
What is kinetic energy?
100
Temperature scaled in which water freezes at 32' and boils at 212'.
What is Fahrenheit?
200
The transfer of thermal energy from one particle to another is this. This is from one solid object to another.
What is conduction?
200
The transfer of thermal energy from warmer regions to cooler regions is this.
What is heat?
200
A material that easily transfer thermal energy.
What is conductor?
200
A moving roller coaster is an example of this.
What is kinetic energy?
200
The temperature scale in which water freezes at 0' and boils at 100'.
What is Celsius?
300
Infrared light is form is this type of thermal energy.
What is radiation?
300
This will rise as a substance absorbs more thermal energy.
What is heat?
300
There are materials that help keep the heat/cool in our homes.
What are insulators?
300
The motion of the particles in matter can be described as this.
What is thermal energy?
300
Scientists measure energy in these units.
What are joules?
400
The transfer of thermal energy in this form does not require any type of matter. The earths main source of this energy is from the sun.
What is radiation?
400
The total kinetic energy of the particles of a substance is this.
What is thermal energy?
400
These are the materials that allow electricity to flow through easily.
What are conductors?
400
A barrel of oil is an example of this.
What is potential energy?
400
The liquid inside a thermometer do this if what its measuring becomes warmer.
What is rises?
500
The sun emits these types of rays.
What is infrared electromagnetic waves?
500
The average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter.
What is temperature?
500
Plastic, wood, cloth, or liquids.
What is good insulators?
500
The method used to transfer energy warm air to the top of the lake?
What is convection?
500
The amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a material by 1'C is this.
What is its specific heat capacity?