Thermal Energy Vocabulary Review

to crash or bump into something

• freezing

• collide

• transfer

• insulate

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when a gas turns into a liquid because it loses heat

• conduction

• evaporation

• condensation

• freezing

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the way heat moves by direct contact

• convection

• radiation

• conduction

a material, like metal, that lets heat or electricity pass through it easily

• conductor

• insulator

• molecule

• solid

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the way heat moves through liquids or gases

• radiation

• conduction

• convection

when something takes in heat and makes the things around it cooler

• endothermic

• exothermic

a liquid turning into a gas when it gains heat

• thermal equilibrium

• condensation

• melting

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

when something gives off heat and makes the things around it warmer

• endothermic

• exothermic

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a liquid turning into a solid when it loses heat

• melting

• freezing

• insulating

• condensing

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something that spreads out to fill the space it is in

• solid

• liquid

• gas