Temperature and Heat Vocab

_______is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.

• Heat

• Specific Heat

• Temperature

• absolute zero

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

______ is the increase in volume of a substance due to an increase in temperature.

• temperature scales

• thermal expansion

• thermal energy

• convection

The lowest temperature on the Kelvin scale is 0K is called?

• temperature conversion

• Kelvin

• absolute zero

• temperature

____ is the transfer of energy between objects that are at different temperature.

• heat

• energy

• work

• temperature

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

____ is the total energy of the particles that make up a substance.

• same temperature

• thermal energy

• thermal expansion

• conduction

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

____ is the transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another through direct contact.

• conduction

• insulator

• radiation

• thermal energy

Substances that conduct thermal energy very well are called _____

• conductors

• insulators

• radiation

• convection

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Substances that do not conduct thermal energy very well are called ____.

• conductors

• insulators

• radiation

• thermal energy

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

____ is the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a liquid or a gas.

• convection

• conduction

• heat

• insulator

___ is the transfer of energy through matter or space as electromagnetic waves.

• conduction

• convection

• insulator

• radiation