Thermal Energy Vocabulary & Lesson Warm Up

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Temperature is

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the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object

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Thermal Energy is

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the sum of the kinetic and potential energy of all the particles in an object

Front

The flow of thermal energy from a warmer to cooler object

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heat

Front

The energy required to raise the temperature of 1kg of a material 1°C is the materials

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specific heat

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The transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles in matter

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conduction

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

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convection

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The transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves

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radiation

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A material in which heat flows slowly

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insulator

Front

Heat transfers from an area of ____temperature to an area of ___ temperature.

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high to low

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Molecules in cold things move more _________ than in hot things.

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slowly