Unit 4 Module 5 Thermal Energy Review

What is the measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles that make up an object called?

• Temperature

• Thermal energy

• Heat

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

If the particles that make up an object begin to move more slowly, their average kinetic energy and the object's temperature both _______.

• increase

• decrease

• remains the same

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is the thermal energy that is transformed from a material with a higher temperature to one with a lower temperature called?

• Heat

• Potential energy

• Kinetic energy

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is any material that flows is called?

• heat

• fluid

• energy

What is a material that does not allow thermal energy to be transferred through it easily called?

• fluid

• thermal conductor

• thermal insulator

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

What is the transfer of energy through matter by the direct contact of particles is called?

• conduction
• convection

• radiation

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is the transfer of energy in the form of electromagnetic waves called?

• heat

• radiation

• thermodynamics

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which type of energy transfer does not require matter?

• conduction

• radiation

• convection

Heat engines convert ________ energy into ________ energy.

• thermal into mechanical

• mechanical into thermal

• electrical into thermal

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NGSS.HS-PS3-3

Which is an internal combustion engine?

• early steam locomotive

• forced air heating system

• gasoline engine in a car