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Energy Vocab

Vocabulary words on types of energy transfers.

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What is conduction? The Transfer of thermal energy that occurs in solids, liquids, and gases when two substances of different temperatures touch.
What is a conductor? A substance that allows the flow of electrical change or transfers thermal energy through matter.
What is a convection? The heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, denser fluids.
What is energy? The ability of a system to do work; required for changes to happen within a system.
What is a heat transfer? The thermal energy exchange between two objects of different temperatures.
What is kinetic energy? Energy in motion.
What is matter? Anything that has volume and mass.
What are the states of matter? Distinct forms of matter known in everyday experience: solid, liquid, gas; also referred to as phases.
What is radiation? The transfer of energy by the movement of electromagnetic waves of subatomic particles.
System A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.
What is temperature? The average kinetic energy of all the particles in a material; measured by a thermometer in degrees.
What is thermal energy? The total kinetic (motion) energy of the tiny particles that make up matter.
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