Study guide Temperature and Kinetic Energy

The temperature scale used mostly in places other than the US

• Fahrenheit

• Celsius

• Kelvin

Is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of an object's molecules.

• temperature

• absolute zero

• thermal contraction

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Describe what happens to water molecules when water is cooled.

• speed up

• stay still

• slow down

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Occurs when objects are heated

• absolute zero

• thermal expansion

• thermal contraction

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At this temperature scale, water boils at 373 degrees and freezes at 273 degrees.

• Kelvin

• Fahrenheit

• Celsius

The temperature at which there is very little or no molecular motion.

• thermal expansion

• thermal contraction

• absolute zero

Occurs when objects are cooled

• thermal expansion

• stay still

• thermal contraction

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This temperature scale is used by the US.

• Celsius

• Fahrenheit

• Kelvin

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Temperature is directly proportional to the average______energy of an object's molecules or particles.

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Molecular motion in matter _____ if the temperature increases.

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