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Acdemic vocab
academic vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| temperature | a measure of how hot or cold something is specifically a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object |
| heat | the energy transferred between objects that are at different temps |
| conduction | the transfer of energy as through a material |
| thermal energy | the total kinetic energy of a substance atoms |
| radiation | the transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves |
| thermal expansion | an increase in the size of a substance in response to an increase in the temperature of the substance |
| convection | the movement of matter due to differences in density that are caused by temperature variations can result in the transfer of energy of heat |