Heat and Matter Vocabulary

What is an Atom?

• Anything that has volume and mass

• The smallest particle of an element. They are made of electrons, protons and neutrons

• The simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist

• Distinct forms of matter known in everyday experience

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What is Energy Transfer?

• The energy of motion

• Energy that is stored in a system of object

• The average kinetic energy of all the particles in a material

• Movement of energy from one system to another

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What is Heat?

• Movement of energy from one system to another

• Energy transferred between two objects of different temperatures moving continually in a predictable pattern

• Average kinetic energy of all the particles in a material

• Measured by a thermometer in degrees (Celsius or Fahrenheit)

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What is Kinetic Energy?

• Energy that is stored in a system or object

• Movement of energy from one system to another

• Energy of motion

• Anything that has volume and mass

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What is matter?

• Anything that has volume and mass

• Occurs as elements, compounds and mixtures

• The simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist

• Formed when two or more atoms join together chemically

What is a molecule?

• Distinct forms of matter known in everyday experience

• The smallest particle of an element

• The simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist

• Made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons

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What is Potential Energy?

• The total kinetic energy of the tiny particles that make up matter

• Movement of energy from one system to another

• Energy of motion

• Energy that is stored in a system or object

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What is state of matter?

• The smallest particle of an element

• Made up of electrons, protons and neutrons

• Distinct forms of matter known in everyday experience. The phases are solid, liquid and gas

• Anything that has volume and mass

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What is temperature?

• Average kinetic energy of all the particles in a material

• Total kinetic energy of the tiny particles that make up matter

• Energy transferred between two objects of different temperatures moving continually in a pattern

• The faster the particles move, the warmer the matter becomes

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What is thermal energy?

• The sum of all kinetic energy and potential energy found within a substance

• It is the total kinetic energy of tiny particles that make up matter

• Movement of energy from one system to another

• It is measured by a thermometer

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