Thermal Energy Quiz

The expansion of matter when it is heated

• Thermal Expansion

• Thermal Energy

• Specific Heat

• Radiation

How hot or cold something is; a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.

• Conductor

• Thermal Energy

• Insulator

• Temperature

The total kinetic and potential energy of all the particles of an object.

• Specific Heat

• Temperature

• Thermal Energy

• Thermal Expansion

The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.

• Heat

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Thermal Expansion

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of a material by 1 kelvin, which is equivalent to 1 degree Celsius.

• Conduction

• Thermal Energy

• Specific Heat

• Temperature

The movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another.

• Convection

• Conduction

• Specific Heat

• Convection Current

The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.

• Thermal Energy

• Radiation

• Heat

• Conduction

The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid.

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Convection Current

1. A material that does not conduct heat well. 2. A material that does not easily allow electric charges to flow.

• Conduction

• Insulator

• Temperature

• Conductor

The transfer of energy from one particle of matter to another within an object or between two objects that are in direct contact.

• Conductor

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Insulator