Thermal Energy Vocab Quiz Review

measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles that make up an object.

• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• specific heat
• thermodynamics

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

sum of the kinetic and potential energy of the particles that make up an object.

• thermal energy
• temperature
• heat
• specific heat
• thermodynamics

energy that is transferred between objects due to temperature difference between those objects.

• heat
• temperature
• thermal energy
• specific heat
• thermodynamics

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NGSS.HS-PS3-4

amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a material.

• specific heat
• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• thermodynamics

heat engine that burns fuel inside the engine in combustion or cylinders.

• internal combustion engine
• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• specific heat

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NGSS.HS-PS1-4

NGSS.HS-PS1-5

NGSS.HS-PS3-4

transfer of thermal energy by collisions between the particles that make up matter.

• conduction
• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• specific heat

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NGSS.HS-PS3-4

transfer of thermal energy in a fluid by the movement of warmer and cooler fluid from one place to another.

• convection
• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• specific heat

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

NGSS.HS-PS3-4

transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.

• radiation
• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• specific heat

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

NGSS.HS-PS4-5

a material through which thermal energy moves slowly.

• thermal insulator
• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• specific heat

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

device used in an active solar heating system that transforms radiant energy from the sun into thermal energy

• solar collector
• temperature
• thermal energy
• heat
• specific heat

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3