Unit 5: Thermal Energy Review

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energy

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What moves in a predictable pattern, from warmer objects to cooler objects until all objects have reached the same temperature?

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heat

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The type of thermal energy transfer that occurs in solids, liquids, and gases when two objects or substances of different temperatures touch is called

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conduction

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The average kinetic energy of all particles in a material is known as ______________________ and is measured by a thermometer in degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit.

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temperature

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The movement, or transfer, of energy from one object or substance to another is known as

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energy transfer

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The ____________________________________________ states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

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law of conservation of energy

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A circular movement of fluids caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, more dense fluids is called

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convection currents

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This type of energy transfer does not require a medium (such as a solid or liquid) to travel through and is identified as the movement of electromagnetic waves or subatomic particles.

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radiation

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_______________ is the total kinetic energy of the tiny particles that make up matter. The faster the particles move, the warmer they become.

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thermal energy

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The type of thermal transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, more dense fluids is

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convection

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