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What factors affect the relationship between the temperature of a system and its total energy?

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The type, states, and amount of matter in the system.

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What is a suitable investigation to determine which material maximizes heat energy transfer?

Back

Hot water placed in containers made of different substances.

Front

What does the relationship between temperature and total energy of a system NOT depend on?

Back

The color of the matter present.

Front

What is the transfer of heat by the movement of currents of liquid or gas called?

Back

Convection.

Front

When ice cubes melt in water, heat energy moves from particles with a higher temperature to particles with a __________ temperature.

Back

Lower.

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What is thermal energy?

Back

The total energy of all the particles in a substance.

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What is conduction?

Back

The transfer of heat through direct contact between materials.

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What is radiation?

Back

The transfer of heat in the form of electromagnetic waves.

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What is the state of matter?

Back

The physical form in which a substance exists, such as solid, liquid, or gas.

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What is a conductor?

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A material that allows heat to flow through it easily.