Energy and Heat transfer Vocabulary

Question 1

Energy cannot be created or destroyed just transformed (under normal conditions

Answer 1

Law of Conservation of Energy

Question 2

Thermal energy that flows due to a difference in temperature. Heat flows from hot to cold.

Answer 2

Heat

Question 3

A method by which heat flows (conduction, convection, radiation

Answer 3

Heat transfer

Question 4

Heat transfer within or between solid objects

Answer 4

Conduction

Question 5

Heat transfer into or out of fluids

Answer 5

Convection

Question 6

Heat transfer due to pockets of energy called photons that can travel through many substances, even empty space.

Answer 6

Radiation

Question 7

A material through which energy (electrical, thermal or sound) cannot be easily transferred

Answer 7

Insulator

Question 8

A material through which energy (electrical, thermal or sound) can be easily transferred

Answer 8

Conductor

Question 9

The measure of the average speed of all particles

Answer 9

Temperature

Question 10

the total energy of all particles in an object

Answer 10

Thermal energy