Thermal Energy Wrap Up

3. An original on which something is patterned.
5. The kind of energy that an object possesses as a result of being in motion.
7. The capacity to do work. Energy exists in a variety of forms and can be converted from one form to another.
9. Limitations on an engineering design.
10. The requirements a design needs to do in order to be successful.
12. Transfer of heat energy in a liquid or gas by movement of the substance’s molecules.

1. A measure of the average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules of an object. The higher the temperature of an object, the higher the average kinetic energy of its molecules.
2. The transfer of energy, such as heat, through a substance. In heat conduction, energy flows by direct contact of the substance’s molecules with each other.
4. Energy that is transferred from one system or body to another as a result of a difference in temperature between the two.
6. The abbreviation for the cycle which is a series of steps that engineers use to come up with a solution to a problem.
8. Energy in the form of electromagnetic waves or streams of particles. Thermal radiation involves the giving off of radiation in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
11. The type of kinetic energy of a substance's atoms.