Thermal Energy Light Energy Sound Energy Potpourri I Potpourri II
This is caused by the movement of molecules
What is Heat (thermal) Energy?
The way in which heat moves through solids
What is conduction?
What is radiation?
The transfer of heat through space
The movement of energy by currents through gasses.
What is convection?
A substance that moves heat energy well
What is a conductor?
Light that bounces off an object or substance
What is reflected light?
Separates white light into the colors that makes it up.
What is a prism?
The bending of light when it passes from one material to another.
What is refraction?
The distance from the top of one wave to the top of the next.
What is wavelength?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Light that enters a substance and transfers its energy
What is absorbed light?
The number of vibrations in one second in a sound wave
What is frequency?
Energy moving through a substance in a wave
What is a sound wave?
How high or low a sound is
What is pitch?
How loud or quiet a sound is
What is amplitude?
The unit of measure used to measure frequency
What is hertz?
An object that does not transfer heat energy well
What are insulators?
Heat moves from ______ objects to ______ objects.
What are warmer to cooler?
State of matter in which the molecules move fast and far apart
What is a gas?
The state of matter in which molecules flow and vibrate close together
What is liquid?
The average kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance
What is temperature?
The state of matter in which The molecules vibrate in one position. They can’t spin
What is a solid?
A tool that measures angles
What is a Protractor?
An area that light waves don’t reach
What is a shadow?
Reflected sound waves
What is an echo?
The building blocks of all substances
What are molecules?