Unit One Vocab

5. Distinct forms of matter known in everyday experience: solid, liquid, and gas.
6. Transfer of thermal energy that occurs when substances of different temperatures touch.
8. A circular movement of fluids caused by rising of hotter, less dense fluid and falling of cooler fluid.
9. Energy transferred between objects of different temperatures that moves from warm to cool.
10. Rapid movement back and forth.
12. Energy disturbances that transfer energy through a medium or space.
15. Average kinetic energy of all particles in a material, measured in degrees.

1. The transfer of energy by the movement of electromagnetic waves or subatomic particles.
2. The material through which a wave travels.
3. A form of energy made by vibrations and requires a medium to travel.
4. Heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler fluids.
5. A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.
7. Anything that has volume and mass.
11. The total kinetic energy of tiny particles that make up matter; related to heat.
13. The ability of a system to do work; required for changes to happen within a system.
14. A scientific statement, e.g., conservation of energy stating energy cannot be created or destroyed.
15. The thermal energy exchange between two objects of different temperatures.