Heat Energy Vocabulary

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What is heat energy?

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Energy that causes a change in temperature of materials.

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What is a device?

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An object that does a job.

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What is friction?

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A force that resists the motion of two surfaces sliding across one another.

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What is the sun?

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The star at the center of the solar system that supplies heat and light to Earth.

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What is Fahrenheit?

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A unit of measure for temperature; boiling is 212 degrees, freezing is 32 degrees.

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What is temperature?

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A measure of how hot or cold something is.

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What is solar energy?

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Energy from the sun that can be used for heating and electricity.

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What does it mean to transfer heat?

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To move heat from one object to another.

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What is boiling?

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The process where a liquid turns into vapor when it reaches a certain temperature.

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What is freezing?

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The process where a liquid turns into solid when it cools down.