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Energy Tranfer
Question | Answer |
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Energy | The ability to cause change or do work. |
Law of Conservation of Energy | States that energy can not be created or destroyed, it only changes form. |
Energy Transfomation | Process of energy changing from one form to another. |
Radiation | The transfer of heat through an empty space. ex. Sunlight to Earth |
Conduction | Heat transferred by direct particles of matter. ex. Soup to pot. |
Convection | Heat transfer by the mass movement of a heated liquid. ex. heating of soup, the Earth’s mantle |
Conductor | A material that conducts heat well. |
Insulator | A material that does not conduct heat well. |
Convection Current | The flow that transfers heat within a fluid. |