Thermal Energy Vocabulary
Across
- 3. anything that has mass and takes up space
- 4. to move from one object to another or one place to another
- 5. the ability to make things move or change
- 6. to reach a conclusion using evidence and reasoning
- 7. a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
- 10. tiny organisms that are made of a single cell change when something becomes different over time
- 13. when something becomes different over time
- 14. a group of atoms joined together in a particular way
- 16. to make something safe to eat or drink by heating it
- 18. a heating unit that stores and warms water
Down
- 1. the energy that an object has because it is moving
- 2. when something stays mostly the same over time
- 5. a balanced state in which a system is stable, such as when two or more samples are at the same temperature
- 8. the total kinetic energy of all the molecules that make up a sample
- 9. water that is underground
- 11. a measure of how hot or cold something is
- 12. the moment when two objects hit each other
- 15. a number that summarizes a set of data and that can be computed by adding all the numbers in a list and then dividing by the number of numbers in the list
- 17. a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like