Thermal Energy Vocabulary Quiz

Average

• a number that summarizes a set of data and by adding all the numbers in a list and then dividing by the quantity of numbers.

• tiny organisms that are made of a single cell

• the ability to make things move or change

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Kinetic Energy

• the ability to make things move or change

• energy that moves

• to move from one object to another or one place to another

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System

• a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole

• a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like

• when something stays mostly the same over time

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transfer

• energy that moves

• to move from one object to another or one place to another

• the ability to make things move or change

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

collision

• when something stays mostly the same over time

• a group of atoms joined together in a particular way

• the moment when two objects hit each other

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stability

• a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept.

• when something stays mostly the same over time

• the strength to stand or endure

molecule

• anything that has mass and takes up space (volume)

• a group of atoms joined together in a particular way

• tiny particles called protons, neutrons and electrons.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

thermal energy

• The total energy of all the particles of an object measured with temperature.

• the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.

• the energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

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temperature

• the amount of movement that atoms store

• The transfer of energy from one form to another

• A measure of the average speed of the molecules of a substance.

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Infer

• to state your opinion

• to reach a conclusion using evidence and reasoning

• to write your answers

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