Heat Energy Vocabulary

Heat is a form of...

• Oxygen

• Gas

• Solid

• Energy

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

An energy that moves from warmer objects to cooler objects is called __________.

• energy

• heat

• thermometer

• radiation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The movement of heat through solids as molecules bump into one another is called ______________.

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• temperature

The movement of heat in the form of invisible waves is called _________________.

• radiation

• temperature

• convection

• conduction

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

A material through which heat does not move through easily is called _____________________.

• an insulator

• a thermometer

• heat

• a conduction

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

An instrument used to measure temperature is called a _______________________.

• conduction

• convection

• thermometer

• insulator

Thermal energy refers to the heat that is made when molecules move. 

                   

The faster the molecules move, the __________ the temperature.

• higher

• lower

• similar

• nothing

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Temperature is the measure of the average kinetic (movement) energy of molecules. It measures the “hotness or “coldness” of __________________.

• empty space

• matter

• a black hole

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

These transfer heat energy poorly (not easily).

• Insulator

• Conductor

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

What is the process called when heat is transferred through a fluid by the movement of the fluid itself?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Insulation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6