Inspire Science Unit 2 Lesson 4 Vocabulary

What is the transfer of energy between two objects that are touching?

• medium

• circuit

• conduction

• insulator

What is the transfer of energy in moving gases or liquid, such as warm air rising above a heater?

• convection

• heat

• resistor

• vibration

What is the movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object?

• electric current

• radiation

• solar cell

• heat

What is energy that comes from a source in the form of waves or particles?

• vibration

• conductor

• circuit

• radiation

What is the measure of the average energy of motion of the particles in an object?

• longitudinal wave

• temperature

• conductor

• radiation

True or False: Thermal Energy cannot be created or destroyed

• True

• False

What is carried by radiation through empty space at the speed of light?

• chemical energy

• nuclear energy

• thermal energy

• electric current