Temperature and Thermal Energy

A student was doing a science investigation in school.  Her teacher asked her to fill two beakers with water.  What would be the temperature of the water when it started to boil?

• 20 degrees Celsius

• 50 degrees Celsius

• 100 degrees Celsius

• 32 degrees Celsius

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Thermal energy always moves from hot to cold.

• True

• False

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When you measure the average kinetic energy in a substance, you are measuring its ___________.

• heat

• temperature

• thermometer

• thermal

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How does heat travel?

• It does not travel.

• cold to hot

• hot to cold

• All of the above.

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The temperature of a substance increases as___.

• the substance's mass increases

• the average kinetic energy of its particles increases

• the substance's volume increases

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What is temperature?

• It is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in the substance.

• It is the total kinetic and potential energy of particles in the substance.

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When temperature increases, the particles move __________.

• faster

• slower

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A thermometer measures the _______________________.

• temperature

• potential energy

• mass

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Molecules do THIS when they heat up

• Move faster

• Move closer together

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When temperature decreases, the particles move __________.

• faster

• slower

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