Thermal Energy: Vocabulary

The movement of thermal energy from one object (or molecule) to another because they are touching.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• all the above

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The measure of the amount of thermal energy in a substance.

• thermal energy

• thermal conductor

• thermal insulator

• temperature

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A material that will allow thermal energy to pass through it easily.

• thermalite

• thermal conductor

• thermal insulator

• thermal energy

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A material that energy might interact with.

• conduction

• convection

• medium

• temperature

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A material that will slow down or stop thermal energy as it passes through it.

• thermalite

• thermal conductor

• thermal insulator

• thermal energy

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Thermal energy that does not require a medium in order to move from one location to another.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• all the above

The movement of thermal energy as matter is heated, moves away from the heat source, and then is replaced by cooler matter.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• all the above

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The energy that an object or substance has because of the movement of its molecules.

• thermalite

• thermal conductor

• thermal insulator

• thermal energy

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Average kinetic energy of all the particles in a material, measured in degrees.

• thermal energy

• thermal conductor

• thermal insulator

• temperature

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The Law of Conservation of Energy states:

• Energy can created or destroyed but not transformed 
• Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only transformed
• Energy can't be created, destroyed or transformed

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