Thermal Energy and Heat Vocabulary Review

Metric unit for measuring temperature; On this scale water freezes at zero and boils at 100.

• Celsius

• Fahrenheit

• temperature

• thermometer

The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that it is touching.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• insulator

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

A material that conducts heat well

• conductor

• insulator

• radiation

• convection

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

The transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a liquid or gas.

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• insulator

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

A temperature scale with the freezing point of water 32 degrees and the boiling point of 212 degrees.

• Fahrenheit

• Celsius

• temperature

• thermometer

A state of matter with no definite shape or volume

• gas

• liquid

• solid

The energy transferred between objects that are at different temperatures

• heat

• thermal energy

• thermometer

• Kinetic Theory of Matter

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

A material that does not conduct heat well

• insulator

• conductor

• phase change

• thermal energy

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

States that all of the particles that make up matter are constantly in motion

• Kinetic Theory of Matter

• Law of Thermal Equilibrium

• phase change

• heat

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

A state of matter that has no definite shape but has a definite volume.

• liquid

• solid

• gas