Vocabulary
What is an Average?
When a thing gets hotter, are the molecules moving faster or slower?
What is Faster?
This is what scientists define as the ability to make something move or change.
What is Energy?
The molecules of a system will transfer energy until the system reaches a stable state known as _______________.
What is Equilibrium?
This term describes when something becomes different over time.
What is Change?
When a thing gets cooler, are it's molecules moving faster or slower?
What is Slower?
This is what scientists describe as a balanced state in which a system is stable, such as when two or more samples are at the same temperature.
What is Equilibrium?
Energy is not created or destroyed, it can only be ______________.
What is transferred?
This is what you call the moment when two objects hit each other.
What is a Collision?
Temperature is a measure of the average ____________________ of the molecules of a thing.
What is Kinetic Energy?
This is what scientists call reaching a conclusion using evidence and reasoning.
What is to Infer?
True or False: Hotter things always have more energy than colder things.
What is False?
The type of energy an object has if the object is in motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
When two things are in contact, thier molecules collide, and kinetic energy transfers from the _______________-moving molecules to the _______________-moving molecules.
What is Faster to Slower?
This is what you call a group of atoms joined together in a particular way.
What is a Molecule?
For things at the same temperature, the thing with more molecules has more _________________ than the thing with fewer molecules.
What is Total Kinetic Energy OR Thermal Energy?
This is what scientists refer to as the total kinetic energy of all the molecules that make up a sample.
What is Thermal Energy?
In a state of equilibrium, all the molecules are moving at about the same or different speeds?
What is the Same?
Scientists use this word to describe something that has stayed mostly the same over time.
What is Stability?
Energy isn't created or destroyed. Therefore, as energy transfers in a system, the total energy of that system does not change. True or False?
What is True?