Unit 15 Thermal Energy and Heat

How hot or cold something is, a measure of the average energy of motion of the particles of a substance

• temperature

• heat

• kelvin

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The temperature scale on which water freezes at 32^o and boils at 212^o

• kelvin

• fahrenheit

• celsius

the temperature scale on which water freezes at 0^o and boils at 100^o

• kelvin

• fahrenheit

• celcius

The temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 272 degrees and the boiling point is 373 degrees and 0 Kelvin is absolute zero.

• Kelvin

• fahrenheit

• clecius

The temperature at which no more energy can be removed from matter.

• Kelvin

• Fahrenheit

• absolute zero

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The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object

• absolute zero

• heat

• Kelvin

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The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid.

• heat

• convection

• thermal energy

The movement of a fluid caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another.

• convection current

• Fahrenheit

• heat

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The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.

• thermal energy

• radiation

• convection

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The transfer of the thermal energy from one particle of matter to another.

• insulator

• conduction

• fahrenheit

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