Unit 6: Quick Check - Thermal Energy

Heat is

• the  movement of thermal energy from a warmer to cooler object
• moving particles
• the average kinetic energy of the particles that are in a substance
• the  amount of matter in an object

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The sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of the particles that make up something is

• temperature
• heat
• thermal energy
• matter

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The average kinetic energy of the particles that make up a substance is 

• temperature
• heat
• kinetic energy
• conduction

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When the temperature increases what else increases?

• potential energy
• kinetic energy
• gravitational potential energy
• total energy

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Heat always moves from...

• warm area to cold areas.

• cold areas to warm areas.

• evenly from warm to cold and cold to warm.

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Of these three states of matter, which one has the most kinetic energy? 

• Solid 
• Liquid 
• Gas

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Solids are described as having a 

• definite shape and indefinite volume
• indefinite shape and indefinite volume
• definite shape and definite volume
• indefinite shape and definite volume

Which of the following states of matter has the lowest kinetic energy? 

• solid
• liquid 
• gas

Adding thermal energy to matter casues its particles to _________________.

• move slower
• move faster
• melt
• feeze

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Principle 2: Atoms are in constant random __________

• molecules

• energy

• motion

• space

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