Heat Transfer

Question 1

What does Absorb mean?

Answer 1

To take in energy

Question 2

What does Condense mean?

Answer 2

Gas turned into liquid

Question 3

What is Conduction?

Answer 3

The way heat travels through solids

Question 4

What is a Conductor?

Answer 4

A material which lets energy through it easily

Question 5

What does Contract mean?

Answer 5

To get smaller

Question 6

What is a Convection Current?

Answer 6

A current created by heat causing changes in the density of a fluid

Question 7

What does Emit mean?

Answer 7

To give out energy

Question 8

What does Evaporate mean?

Answer 8

When liquid turns to gas

Question 9

What doe Expand mean?

Answer 9

To get bigger

Question 10

What is a Fluid?

Answer 10

A gas or a liquid

Question 11

What is a Gas?

Answer 11

Particles that are spread out and not attached to each other

Question 12

What is a Heat Insulator?

Answer 12

A material that does not let heat energy flow through it easily

Question 13

What is Infrared Radiation?

Answer 13

A wave that can travel through transparent things and a vacuum (empty space)

Question 14

What is an Insulator?

Answer 14

A material that does not let energy flow through it easily

Question 15

What are Joules (J)?

Answer 15

The units for measuring energy

Question 16

What does Melt mean?

Answer 16

When a solid turns into a liquid

Question 17

What is Radiation?

Answer 17

The transfer of heat energy by electromagnetic waves

Question 18

What is a Solid?

Answer 18

Something made of particles that are close together in a regular array but can’t move past each other

Question 19

What is Thermal Energy?

Answer 19

Another name for heat energy

Question 20

What is a Liquid?

Answer 20

Something made of particles that are touching in a regular array, but can move past each other

Question 21

What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?

Answer 21

Radio waves, Micro waves, Infrared Radiation, Visible Light, Ultraviolet Light, X-Rays, Gamma Rays