heat and transfer vocab

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

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

Question 3

Heat transfer

Answer 3

a method of heat which 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 transformed.

Question 8

Conductor

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Temperature

Answer 9

The measure of average speed in all particles.

Question 10

Thermal energy

Answer 10

the total of all energy particles in an object