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Science vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Electromagnetic wave | A wave that can transfer electric and magnetic energy through the vacuum of space |
| greenhouse effect | The trapping of heat near a planet’s surface by certain gases in the planet’s atmosphere |
| thermal energy | The total kinetic and potential energy of all the particles of an object |
| Convection | the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid |
| radiation | the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves |