Thermal Energy
Heat
Scales
Absolute Zero
Cellular Energy Wild Card
100

The total sum of the kinetic energy of every particle in a substance.

What is thermal energy?

100

The process of transferring thermal energy across empty space.

What is radiation?

100

The scale where the boiling point of water is 212 degrees.

What is the Fahrenheit scale?

100

The definition of absolute zero

What is the temperature at which all thermal energy has been removed from a system?

100

These are the reactants in the process of photosynthesis. 

Carbon Dioxide and Water.

200

He created the scale based on absolute zero, and he is Chana's FAVORITE scientist.

Who is William Thomson or Lord Kelvin?

200

The only three ways that thermal energy can be transferred in this universe.

What are radiation, conduction, and convection?

200

The scale where the freezing point of water is represented by the largest rational number.

What is Kelvin - 273 K.?

200

-273.15 degrees.

What is the temperature of absolute zero on the centigrade scale?

200

The location where cellular respiration (oxidative metabolism)  takes place.

What is the mitochondrion?

300

The AVERAGE kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.

What is temperature?

300

A kitten is warming herself in a southern window in the house.  This is an example of this kind of thermal energy transfer. 

What is radiation?

300

The freezing point of water on each of the the three scales. 

What are 273 K, 0°C, and 32°F?

300

The two requirements to liquify most gases.

High pressure and low temperature.

300

The pigment that absorbs most of the energy from the sunlight but reflects the color green.

What is chlorophyll?

400

A bathtub full of cool water has more/less thermal energy than 12 oz mug of boiling water.

What is the bath tub has more thermal energy than the cup because there is more water in it?

400

A snowflake lands on your hand, and it feels cold.  This is an example of this type of thermal energy transfer.

What is conduction?

400

The number of Fahrenheit degrees that lie between or separate the freezing and boiling points of water.

What is 180?

400

This element liquifies at the lowest temperature on the Kelvin scale.

What is Helium?

400

These are the products of cellular respiration (oxidative metabolism). 

What are carbon dioxide and water?

500

Gabi wants to add cold to a substance. This i s the way she can do that.

What is, "You can't add cold to a substance, Gabi.  Cold does not exist?

500

The force that makes convection currents move.

What is gravity?

500

He corrected Celsius' scale so that the freezing point was lower than the boiling point.

Who was Karl Linnaeus?

500

The name we give to the state of matter produced at 10 billionths of a Kelvin?

What is a Bose-Einstein condensate?

500

This is the balanced equation that represents photsynthesis.

6CO2 + 6H20 = 1 C6H12O6 + 6 O2