A student conducts an investigation to show the relationship between temperature and kinetic energy in one phase of matter. What would the graph of this relationship look like?(1 point)

Responses

a horizontal line
a horizontal line

a diagonal line
a diagonal line

an S-shaped curve
an S-shaped curve

a U-shaped curve

1 answer

The correct response is a diagonal line.

In one phase of matter (such as a gas, liquid, or solid), as temperature increases, the average kinetic energy of the particles also increases, leading to a linear relationship between temperature and kinetic energy. Thus, the graph of this relationship would show a diagonal line rising from left to right.