Unit 4 Thermal Energy

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Across
  1. 1. The state of matter that can have the most thermal energy
  2. 8. A hot piece of iron is placed in water, heating the water is an example of which type of thermal energy transfer?
  3. 9. A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object
  4. 12. A description of an amount, a number, or a size
  5. 13. ___________ energy is the energy of an object that is due to the object's motion.
  6. 15. A microwave oven heating food is an example of which type of thermal energy transfer?
  7. 16. The total kinetic energy of a substance's particles.
Down
  1. 2. A set of interacting parts that work together
  2. 3. A group of atoms that are held together by chemical forces
  3. 4. The state of matter that has the least amount of thermal energy
  4. 5. Thermal energy no longer transfers between objects once there are the __________ temperature.
  5. 6. Hot air rises over land, cools high in the air, and falls back toward land- what type of thermal energy transfer?
  6. 7. Energy transferred between objects that are at different temperatures.
  7. 10. Thermal _____________ is the state in which objects in physical contact with each other have identical temperatures or exchange no energy as heat.
  8. 11. The tool used to measure temperature.
  9. 14. Heat travels away from the ____________ object.