Topic 4
What are the 3 states of matter.
What are solid liquid and gas.
Definition of melting?
What is a change from a solid to a liquid.
Name three kinds of radiant energy.
What is Cosmic, Gamma, X-Rays, Ultra Violet, Visible Light, Infrared, Microwaves, and Radio Waves.
What is Energy from the sun
What are the 3 thermometer scales?
What are Celcius scale, Kelvin Scale, and Fahrenheit Scale.
Why are gasses hard to observe?
What is they are invisible.
Why don't we spend much time studying plasma?
What is it can only be produced under extreme conditions.
Definition of fluids.
What is a material that lacks a definite shape and can flow from one place to another.
What are energy resources that can be recycled or renewed within 100 years.
What forms of fossil fuels have we come to depend on?
What is Oil, and natural gas
Can a liquid be compressed?
What is cannot be compressed.
Definition of fusion?
What is also known as melting.
Definition of radiation.
What is the transfer of energy in the form of electromagnetic waves.
Definition of greenhouse gasses
What are gasses such as Carbon Dioxide that result from the burning of fossil fuels that trap heat in our atmosphere.
What are liquids that evaporate easily at low tempuratures.
Definition of contract?
What is of substances to decrease in size or volume.
Definition of Evaporative cooling?
What is a process in which the faster moving particles on the surface of a liquid evaporate.
A material that doesn't allow heat transfer by conduction.
What is an Insulator.
What are the 2 major problems that come with using fossil fuels?
what is they are non-Renewable and they produce toxic chemicals which result in global warming
What is absolute zero in celsius.
-273.15.
Definition of expand?
What is of substances, to increase in volume.
Definition of sublimation?
What is a direct phase change between a solid and a gas.
Definition of thermal conduction.
What is the direct transfer of thermal energy from one particle to another.
Definition of thermal pollution
What is a warming of the environment that results from human activities.
Out of a Recording thermometer, Infared Thermometer, Bimetallic Strip, and Thermocouple, What is used to take the temperature of a furnace?
What is Thermocouple