Thermal energy vocab

A number that summarizes a set of data and that can be computed by adding all the numbers in a list and then dividing by the number of numbers in the list.

• Average

• groundwater

• molecule

• infer

The moment when two objects hit each other

• collision

• change

• thermal energy

• water heater

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

when something becomes different over time

• infer

• sample

• change

• average

anything that has mass and takes up space.

• temperature

• matter

• collision

• stability

water that is underground

• transfer

• bacteria

• change

• groundwater

a measure of how hot or cold something is

• average

• temperature

• system

• sample

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

the energy that an object has because it is moving

• collision

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• stability

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

when something stays mostly the same over time

• thermal energy

• stability

• sample

• temperature

anything that has mass and takes up space

• bacteria

• thermal energy

• energy

• matter

a group of atoms joined together in a particular way.

• water heater

• stability

• molecule

• change

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1