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Heat energy causes matter to melt. The energy breaks bonds in the matter making looser constructions of the material.
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Which type of energy causes snow to melt?
Thermal.
Can energy cause a change in matter?
Yes. As an example, you can melt ice by adding heat energy.
What is a physical change of matter?
A physical change in matter occurs when the shape or form of matter changes, but there is no chemical reaction. If someone were to melt a sugar cube, that would be an example of a physical change.
When a hot object touches a cool object the particles in the hot object cause the particles in the cool object to?
It causes it to vibrate which causes it to heat up
Vibrating matter that causes this kind of energy?
sound
What causes solids to melt?
fire/heat makes matter expand the melt away
How does the different phases of matter transform?
Heat energy causes a solid to melt into a liquid. Further input of heat turns the liquid matter into a gas or vapor.
How can heat cause matter to contract?
The application of heat energy usually causes matter to expand, not contract.There one or two exceptions, eg. water (as ice) contracts as you melt the ice.
What happen to matter when it is heated?
it will melt
What causes polar ice to melt?
Melting of the ice caps Global warming causes the ice caps to melt. As they melt, the moving water corrodes at the remaining ice, speeding up the process.
What causes ice cream melt?
Heat causes any frozen liquid to melt. When a liquid is frozen, all of the atoms come together. When that frozen liquid is heated up, all of the atoms move away from each other which causes it to melt.
What in chocolate ingridient causes it to melt?
Fat.
What characteristic of matter is obtained by changing the state of the matter example the ability to melt of that matter?
candy
What causes snow to melt to liquid water?
heat
What form of energy causes chocolate to melt?
Heat
Which type of energy causes snow to melt?
Thermal.
What causes a glacier to begin to melt?
heat
