What describes temperature?

Answer 1

Temperature is the degree or intensity of heat that is held in a substance, object or produced by a body, especially heat that can be measured by touch, thermometer, or as an estimate or a comparison to something else's known temperature. For example, we can't put a thermometer in the sun, but we can estimate its amount of heat.

Answer 2

The most common method of both scientific and informal use is with the Celsius scale. Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius and boils at 100 degrees Celsius.

Fahrenheit is used mainly in the United States. Water freezes at 32 degrees F and boils at 212 degrees F.

Answer 3

Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance. It is commonly measured in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit, and indicates how hot or cold an object or environment is. Temperature affects various physical and chemical properties of substances, such as their volume, density, and states of matter.

Answer 4

freezing, frigid, frosty, cold, chilly, cool, temperate, tepid, lukewarm, warm, hot, burning, boiling, scalding, scorching, searing.

Answer 5

a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.

Answer 6

Temperature is the amount of energy that a particle or atom has. If an atom has a high temperature it has a high level of energy and vice-versa.

Answer 7

Temperature is a measure of how hot something is -or how much heat energy it contains.