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February 13, 2012

Today, you will need to post to the main page - 3 things that stand out as important concepts for this unit - Heat and Energy. You will create one conversation topic and reply to at least 2 other conversations. If you have time, please try your hand at creating a link and updloading a widget of your choice (video, images, etc).

All of these must be related to Heat and Energy and should be something useful to help prepare for our unit test on Tuesday, February 14th.

Should look something like this: =Heat and Energy Unit =

**Mrs. Murray**

 * 1) **Energy is the ability to do work**
 * 2) **The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it can only change form**
 * 3) **The total amount of potential energy (PE) and kinetic energy (KE) in a system is equal to the thermal energy of that material**
 * Luis Matias **
 * 1) **Conduction is the energy transfer through direct contact. **
 * 2) **Convection is the energy transfer that occurs from a current that results from two different temperatures. **
 * 3) **Radia ****tion is the energy transfer that occurs when there's a wave of energy. **

1. The Earth heats up unevenly, because Earth is a sphere, and has a tilted axis. 2. Specific heat is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of material by 1 degree Celsius. 3. The curving effect of the Earth's rotation on all moving objects is called the, Coriolis Effect. Dewey Reed
 * Blake Chin**
 * 1) There are 4 types of Potential Energy and 5 types of Kinetic Energy.
 * 2) Chemical, Nuclear, __Mechanical__ and Gravitational are potential.
 * 3) Radiant, or Electromagnetic, Thermal, Motion, Sound and __Electrical__ are kinetic.
 * Soloman Jewfro**
 * 1) The Coriolis effect is the impact of any __free__ moving object because of the Earths movement
 * 2) The Earth is unevenly heated because it is tilted on its axis.
 * 3) Local winds are caused by the unequal heating of the Earth and blows over a short distance.


 * Nancy Palma**
 * 1) Heat is the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another because of the temperature.
 * 2) Kinetic Energy is energy that is in motion.
 * 3) Energy is measured in the amount of "work" it does. Potential Energy is stored energy.

Kyra Newhouse //**Sara Green **//
 * 1) __Warm air__ circulates in clockwise movement because of the lower pressure and cold air circulates in a counter-clockwise movement because of the higher pressure

3) Absolute zero cannot be reached.
media type="youtube" key="sc4HxPxNrZ0" height="315" width="560" here is that 7 billion video i was talking about. :-)

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