Across
- 2. the movement of particles through a substance, transporting their heat energy from hotter areas to cooler areas.
- 8. he's a science guy
- 11. provides resistance to heat flow and lowers your heating and cooling costs
- 13. a renewable and clean source of electricity that harnesses the power of the sun through photovoltaic cells
- 14. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
- 16. it rules (is answered in the bill Nye intro)
Down
- 1. the quality of being hot; high temperature.
- 2. the process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature or of electrical potential between adjoining regions, without movement of the material.
- 3. used to clean
- 4. an instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, typically one consisting of a narrow, hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations and having at one end a bulb containing mercury or alcohol that expands and contracts in the tube with heating and cooling.
- 5. part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- 6. the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
- 7. energy given off by matter in the form of rays or high-speed particles
- 9. a group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reactions
- 10. the vapor into which water is converted when heated, forming a white mist of minute water droplets in the air.
- 12. the star around which the earth orbits.
- 15. relating to heat.
