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vocab section 2-4
science cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| thermal energy | the total energy of a substance's particles due to their movement or vibration |
| chemical energy | a form of energy that comes from chemical bonds |
| law of conservation of energy | the principle that the total amount of energy remains the same during physical or chemical change |
| melting | the change in state from solid to liquid |
| freezing | the change in state from liquid to solid |
| vaporization | the change in state from liquid to gas |
| evaporation | the process that occurs when vaporization takes place only on the surface of a liquid |
| boiling | the process that occurs when vaporization takes place inside a liquid as well as on the surface |
| condensation | the change of state from a gas to a liquid |
| sublimation | the change in state from a solid directly to a gas without processing through the liquid state |
| chemical reaction | a process in which substances undergo chemical changes, forming new substances with different properties |