The 4 States
This state of matter has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
The direction that heat always moves.
What is hot to cold?
When objects increase in thermal energy the particles spread out.
What is thermal expansion?
A phase change going from a solid to a liquid.
What is melting?
The energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This state of matter has the most energy.
What is plasma?
When heat transfers by direct contact or through an object.
What is conduction?
What is a solid?
Phase change going from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
The total kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is thermal energy?
This state of matter does not have a definite shape or a definite volume.
What is plasma or gas?
How warmth from the sun gets to Earth.
What is radiation?
Has charged particles that move quickly and are spread out.
What is a plasma?
A phase change going from a solid to a gas.
What is sublimation?
The average kinetic energy of the particles of an object.
What is temperature?
This state of matter has a definite volume but not a definite shape.
What is a liquid?
Air conditioning in a house uses this method of heat transfer.
What is convection?
The order of the 4 states of matter from slowest moving particles to fastest moving particles.
What is solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
Frost forming on a window in the wintertime is an example of this phase change.
What is deposition?
Heat will continue to transfer until both objects reach the same temperature.
What is thermal equilibrium?
The order of the 4 states of matter in decreasing density.
What is solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
A thermometer uses this method of heat transfer to work.
What is convection?
How particles change how they move when a substance evaporates.
What is spread out and move faster?
These phase changes result from an increase in energy (include at least three).
What is melting, evaporation/vaporization, sublimation, and ionization?
Convection.
What is the method of heat transfer from the circulation of a gas or liquid?