Thermal Expansion and Contraction

3. If the atoms of an object are moving or vibrating fast, the temperature would be...

• Hot
• Cold
• Unknown

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4. If the atoms of an object are moving or vibrating slow, the object would feel...

• Cold
• Hot
• Unknown

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What is Thermal Contraction 

• A Potato
• A decrease in a materials  volume when its temperature decreases 
• The movement of fluids in a cycle because of convection 
• A material through which  thermal energy does not flow easily.

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What is Thermal expansion?

• The transfer of thermal energy between materials by the collisions of particles 
• Is a decrease in a materials volume when temperature decreases 
• An increase in a materials volume when temperature increases
• Chicken fried rice

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Objects gain heat and _________. 

• expand
• contract

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The liquid in the thermometer rises when it is placed in the hot water because ___________. 

• it gains heat from the hot water and expands.
• loses heat from the hot water and contracts. 
• the surrounding air is too warm. 
• the liquid is boiling. 

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An increase in the volume of a material due to a temperature increase in the material.

• Thermal contraction

• Thermal expansion

• Thermal heat

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Thermal expansion occurs when particles of matter move farther apart as temperature increase.

• True

• False

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The instrument used for measuring temperature

• barometer

• thermometer

• calorimeter

What is happening to the fluid inside the thermometer in this image?

• thermal expansion

• thermal contraction

• vaporization

• boiling

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