Energy & Heat Transfer vocabulary

Question 1

Law of Conservation of energy

Answer 1

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

Question 2

heat

Answer 2

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

Question 3

heat transfer

Answer 3

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

Question 4

conduction

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 packets of energy called photons that can travel through many substances, even empty space.

Question 7

insulator

Answer 7

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

Question 8

conductor

Answer 8

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

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 particles in an object.