Thermal Heat Energy - Vocabulary

What is thermal energy?

• The energy created when an object changes state

• The energy created by the movement of particles in matter

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What is temperature?

• The average thermal energy of liquids

• The average thermal energy of matter

What is heat?

• The transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another

• The transfer of liquid from one glass to another glass

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What is conduction?

• When solids expand and shrink

• When heat moves between two substances that are touching

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What is convection?

• When thermal energy is transferred through a moving gas or liquid

• When thermal energy is transferred through animals

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What is radiation?

• When thermal energy is transferred by the dirt in the ground

• When thermal energy is transferred without any matter to carry it

What is a convection current?

• When convection happens to a solid

• A pattern of flowing thermal energy caused by convection

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