Thermal Energy Transfer Vocab

The total kinetic (motion) energy of the tiny particles that make up matter; the faster the particles move, the warmer the matter becomes

• thermal energy

• temperature

• heat transfer

• insulator

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Energy of motion

• kinetic energy

• energy

• matter

• system

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The thermal energy exchange between two objects of different temperatures; energy moves in a predictable pattern from warmer sites to cooler sites until all sites have reached the same temperature

• heat transfer

• temperature

• conductor

• thermal energy

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Average kinetic energy of all the particles in a material; measured by a thermometer in degrees (usually degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit)

• temperature

• kinetic energy

• thermal energy

• states of matter

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Transfer of thermal energy that occurs in solids, liquids, and gases when two substances of different temperatures touch

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• conductor

Heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, more dense fluids.

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• thermal radiation

The transfer of energy by the movement of electromagnetic waves or subatomic particles through empty space.

• radiation

• conduction

• convection

• thermal energy

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Anything that has volume and mass

• matter

• states of matter

• temperature

• energy

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Distinct forms of matter known in everyday experience: solid, liquid, and gas; also referred to as phases

• states of matter

• matter

• convection

• kinetic energy

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The ability of a system to do work; required for changes to happen within a system

• energy

• matter

• thermal energy

• kinetic energy

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