2022 Energy & Heat Transfer Vocabulary

Question 1

law of conservation

Answer 1

Energy can not be created or destroyed just transformed (under normal conditions

Question 2

Heat

Answer 2

Thermal energy that flows due to a different. Heat flows from hot to cold

Question 3

Heat transfer

Answer 3

A method in which heat flows (condution convection radiation)

Question 4

condution

Answer 4

heat transfer within or between solid objects.

Question 5

Convection

Answer 5

heat transfer into or out of fluids

Question 6

radiation

Answer 6

Heat transfer due to the packets of energy called photons that can travle through many substances, even empty space

Question 7

insulator

Answer 7

a material through which energy (eletrical, thermal or sound) can’t be easily transferd.

Question 8

conducter

Answer 8

A material through which energy can be easily transferd.

Question 9

temperature

Answer 9

the measure of the average speed of all particles.

Question 10

thermal energy

Answer 10

the total energy of all particals in an object