Thermal Energy
Kinetic/Potential
Critical Thinking
Phase Changes
General Science
100

This term describes the transfer of heat through direct contact between particles.

What is conduction?

100
The energy of a moving object.

What is Kinetic Energy?

100

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short

100

What is it called when a liquid turns into a solid?

Freezing

100

What celestial body is closest to Earth?

The moon

200

This device measures temperature.

What is a thermometer?

200

The energy an object has because of its position or condition.

What is potential energy?

200

What belongs to you, yet other people use it more than you do. 

Your name

200

What do you call a phase change from gas to liquid?

condensation

200
What is the basic unit of life?

The Cell

300

The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.

What is temperature?

300

If you were to drop a ping pong ball and a golf ball from the same height and the same speed, which ball would have more kinetic energy?

The Golf Ball

300

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

the letter "m"

300

What do you have to add to a substance in order for it the particles in the substance to speed up?

Heat

300

What kind of weather front typically comes with rain and cooler temperatures?

A cold front

400

The transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves.

What is radiation?

400

Which has more energy: A car driving at 25 miles per hour or a ball moving at 25 miles per hour?

A car due to it having more mass. 

400

What is full of holes but still holds water?

A sponge
400

Gaining or losing energy? Going from a liquid to a solid.

Losing energy

400

What is the fastest land animal?

A cheetah

500

When hot substances become less dense than cooler substances and rise. 

What is convection?

500

What has more mass? 2 tons of full-sized bricks or 4 tons of half-sized bricks.

4 tons of half-sized bricks.

500

What can you catch but not throw?

A cold

500

Double Jeopardy: What is it called when a solid changes directly to a gas, skipping the liquid phase?

Sublimation
500

Arteries or veins? Which pumps blood away from the heart?

Arteries