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Heat Vocabulary
Heat Transfer
Temp. Scales
Changes of state
Uses of Heat
100
The lowest possible temperature
What is absolute zero?
100
Heat transfered by physical contact (touching)
What is conduction?
100
On this temperature scale water freezes at 32 degrees
What is Fahrenheit?
100
The temperature at which a solid changes to a liquid
What is melting point?
100
This common lab device uses thermal expansion to measure
What is a thermometer?
200
Movement of thermal energy from one substance to another
What is heat?
200
Heated air moves into a room through vents
What is convection?
200
On the Celsius scale, water boils at this temperature
What is 100 degrees?
200
Vaporization that takes place only at the surface of a liquid
What is evaporation?
200
A thermostat uses this as it expands and contracts to regulate the temperature of a room
What is a bimetallic strip?
300
A devise used to regulate the temperature
What is a thermostat?
300
Material that does not transfer heat well
What is an insulator?
300
This temperature scale is most frequently used in chemistry and physics labs
What is the Kelvin scale?
300
Number of common forms matter exists in on Earth
What is 3- solid, liquid, and gas?
300
The units/intervals of these two temperature scales are the same
What is Kelvin and Celsius?
400
Increasing in size due to heating
What is thermal expansion?
400
Transfer of heat through electromagnetic (infrared) waves
What is radiation?
400
Water freezes at this temperature on the Kelvin scale
What is 273?
400
This form of matter naturally expands to fill the space available to it
What is gas?
400
The three steps of the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
500
The amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of a substance one Kelvin
What is specific heat?
500
A blacksmith working at his hearth is warmed by this method of heat transfer
What is radiation?
500
The coldest possible temperature on the Celsius scale
What is -273 degrees?
500
changing the arrangement of particles due to the addition or loss of thermal energy
What is a change of phase or state?
500
The SI Unit of heat
What is the joule or calorie?