Heat Energy Vocabulary

Heat transfer within OR between materials 

Key idea: touching

Ex: The spoon is warming up from the pot because they are touching

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Heat

• Convection

Heat transfer by movement 

Key idea:  hot rises, cool fills the space

Ex: The heat goes in a loop within the soup pot

• Insulator

• Heat conductor

• Convection

• Temperature

Transfer of heat through

space

Key idea: NO touching

Ex: Sunlight warms earth's surface 

• Insulator

• Radiation

• Heat

• Convection

Transfer of thermal energy 

(heat always moves from hot to cold)

Ex: Hot to Cold

• Temperature

• Heat Conductor

• Conduction

• Heat

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

_Measurement  of average kinetic energy (energy of motion)

Ex: The hotter something is, the faster the molecules move

• Temperature

• Heat

• Condcution

• Insulator

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Material that 

slows down the process of heat transfer

Ex: The wool sock

• Heat

• Insulator

• Radiation

• Heat Temperature

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

Material that allows heat to transfer easily

Ex: Metal Spoon

• Radiation

• Convection

• Heat conductor

• Temperature

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3