🧪 Topic 4: Thermal Energy Vocabulary

All matter is composed of small particles which have space between them and are in random motion

• kinetic theory of matter

• kinetic energy

• conduction

• insulator

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

• thermal energy

• convention

• heat

• temperature

of or denoting a scale of temperature on which water freezes at 0° and boils at 100° under standard conditions.

• kelvin

• temperature

• celsius

• fahrenheit

of or denoting a scale of temperature on which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° under standard conditions.

• celsius

• fahrenheit

• kelvin

• heat

1. the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature (equivalent in size to the degree Celsius), first introduced as the unit used in the Kelvin scale.

• kelvin

• celsius

• fahrenheit

1. an instrument for measuring and indicating temperature

• Thermometer

• thermal energy

• conductor

• insulator

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

• temperature

• kinetic energy

• heat

• thermal energy 

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

• temperature

• heat

• thermal energy

• kinetic energy

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

• conduction

• conductor

• convection

• insulator

1. A material that conducts heat well. 2. A material that allows electric charges to flow.

• convection

• conduction

• insulator

•  conductor