Thermal Energy Vocab Check

Thermal Energy

• The total kinetic energy of moving particles of matter.
• The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in matter.
• The transfer of thermal energy between substances.
• A measure of how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of a substance.

Temperature

• A measure of how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of a substance.
• The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in matter.
• The transfer of thermal energy between substances.
• The total kinetic energy of moving particles of matter.

Heat

• The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in matter.
• A measure of how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of a substance.
• The total kinetic energy of moving particles of matter.
• The transfer of thermal energy between substances.

Specific Heat

• The total kinetic energy of moving particles of matter.
• The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in matter.
• The transfer of thermal energy between substances.
• A measure of how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of a substance.

Conduction

• The transfer of thermal energy between particles of matter that are touching.
• Transfer of thermal energy by waves that can travel through air.
• The transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through either a gas or a liquid.
• Flow of particles in a fluid that occurs because of differences in temperature and density.

Convection

• Flow of particles in a fluid that occurs because of differences in temperature and density.
• The transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through either a gas or a liquid.
• The transfer of thermal energy between particles of matter that are touching.
• Transfer of thermal energy by waves that can travel through air.

Convection Current

• The transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through either a gas or a liquid.
• Transfer of thermal energy by waves that can travel through air.
• Flow of particles in a fluid that occurs because of differences in temperature and density.
• The transfer of thermal energy between particles of matter that are touching.

Thermal Radiation

• Transfer of thermal energy by waves that can travel through air.
• The transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through either a gas or a liquid.
• Flow of particles in a fluid that occurs because of differences in temperature and density.
• The transfer of thermal energy between particles of matter that are touching.

Thermal Insulator

• Material that is not good at transferring thermal energy.
• Material that is good at transferring thermal energy.
• The transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through either a gas or a liquid.
• The transfer of thermal energy between particles of matter that are touching.

Thermal Conductor

• The transfer of thermal energy between particles of matter that are touching.
• Material that is good at transferring thermal energy.
• The transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through either a gas or a liquid.
• Material that is not good at transferring thermal energy.