Many people have a tendency to think that heat and temperature are the same thing. However, this is not true. Heat describes (1 point)

Question

• energy that flows from warmer objects to cooler objects.
the average amount of energy possessed by an object due to the potential energy stored in its bonds.
the average amount of energy
• possessed by an object due to the motion of its particles.
energy that flows from cooler objects to warmer objects.

Answer 1

Heat describes energy that flows from warmer objects to cooler objects.

This definition highlights that heat is the transfer of energy between objects due to a temperature difference, rather than a measure of the temperature or energy of an object itself.