Chapter 10 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a machine that uses heat to do work
  2. 6. a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles of an object.
  3. 7. the conversion of a substance from one physical form to the next.
  4. 12. the excessive heating of a body of water
  5. 14. the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of liquid or gas.
  6. 15. the transfer of thermal energy through matter or space as electromagnetic waves, such as visible light or infrared waves
  7. 16. a substance that conducts thermal energy really well.
Down
  1. 1. a substance that reduces the transfer of thermal energy
  2. 3. the total energy of particles that make up an object
  3. 4. the amount of energy needed to change the temperature of 1kg of a substance 1C
  4. 5. the transfer of energy between objects at different temperatures.
  5. 8. the transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another through direct contact.
  6. 9. the lowest possible temperature 0K, -273C
  7. 10. the increase in volume of a substance due to an increase in temperature.
  8. 11. the physical forms in which a substance can exist
  9. 13. a substance that does not conduct thermal energy very well.