ASPECt
Energy: Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservation
Item EG066004: The thermal energy of an object depends on the speed, the number, and the type of molecules that make up the object.
The thermal energy of an object depends on which of the following?
- Only the average speed of the molecules that make up the object
- Only the average speed and the type of molecules that make up the object
- Only the average speed and the number of molecules that make up the object
- The average speed, the number, and the type of molecules that make up the object
Answer Choice |
Overall |
Grades |
Gender |
Primary Language |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 1135 |
4–5 n = 0 | 6–8 n = 583 |
9–12 n = 552 |
Male n = 536 |
Female n = 574 |
English n = 970 |
Other n = 132 |
|
| A. | 24% | N/A | 23% | 26% | 24% | 25% | 25% | 21% |
| B. | 17% | N/A | 20% | 14% | 19% | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| C. | 26% | N/A | 25% | 26% | 24% | 27% | 25% | 29% |
| D. | 33% | N/A | 32% | 34% | 33% | 33% | 33% | 33% |