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100
What is kinetic energy?
The energy of motion
100
This is the name given to the process when hot water vapor fogs up a cooler mirror?
condensation
100
What vocabulary word means anything that has mass and takes up space?
matter
100
Something will float in water if it has _____ density than water. (more or less)
less
100
This is the name given when liquid changes into gas.
Evaporation
200
This is the state of matter where particles are pulled close together... Has a definite shape and volume.
solid
200
Potential or Kinetic?
A rock rolling down a hill?
kinetic
200
What is heat that is transferred through direct contact?
What is conduction.
200
What is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves?
What is radiation.
200
What is the transfer of heat through fluids and gas?
What is convection?
300
What vocabulary word means the ability to do work or to make change?
energy
300
Which state of matter keeps its volume and its shape when you move it from place to place?
solid
300
This is the change of state from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation.
300
What two factors can affect potential and kinetic energy?
Height and mass
300
Physical change or Chemical change?
Chop down a tree, burn it in your fireplace for warmth
Chemical change
400
Matter in this phase is not common on Earth, but it is present in the sun and other stars in our universe. What is this state of matter?
What is plasma?
400
A huge rock at the state park gets so hot during the day that you cannot sit on it. The rock is heated by what?
What is radiation.
400
Which vocabulary word means the amount of matter in a specific volume, or in other words, how closely packed together the particles of matter are in an object?
density
400
What law says that no matter is created or destroyed when changing states?
The Law of Conservation of Matter
400
Explain the particles and their movement in a liquid.
The particles are farther apart and lower in energy than those of a solid.
500
The state of matter that does not have a definite shape but it does keep its volume...
liquid
500
Which of the following is an example of a phase change where heat energy is absorbed?
solid changing to liquid
500
Which phase is a theoretical state in which all kinetic energy is absent and particles do not move?
What is Absolute Zero.
500
Why does freezing cause a liquid to turn into a solid?
Enough energy has been removed to slow down the particles/molecules.
500
You are cooking dinner using a metal pan. When you pick up the pan, the handle burns your hand. Which form of thermal energy transfer causes you to burn your hand?
What is conduction?