| Term | Definition |
|---|
| temperature | a measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles within an object |
| thermometer | a device that measures temperature |
| absolute zero | the temperature at which an object's energy is minimal |
| 98.6 | Normal human body temperature |
| heat | the transfer of energy from the particles of one object to those of another object due to the temperature difference between the two objects |
| conduction | the transfer of heat energy between particles as they collide within a substance or between two objects in contact |
| convection | the transfer of energy by the movement of fluids with different temperature |
| convection current | the flow of a fluid due to heated expansion followed by cooling and contraction |
| radiation | the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves |
| conductor | a material through which energy can be easily transferred as heat |
| insulator | a material that is a poor conductor of energy conductor |
| specific heat | the amount of heat energy transferred as heat that will raise the temperature of 1 kg of a substance by 1 degree K. |
| heating system | any device or process that rransfers energy to a substance to raise the temperature of the substance |
| cooling system | a device that transfers energy as heat out of an object to lower its temperature |
| refrigerant | substance used in cooling systems that transfers large amounts of energy as it changes state |
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