Heat and temperature are terms that many people mix up, but they actually mean different things in science.

Definitions:

• Heat is the energy that moves from one object to another because of a difference in temperature. For example, if you have a hot cup of cocoa, the heat from the cocoa warms up the cooler air around it until everything is the same temperature.

• Temperature is how hot or cold something is. It shows us the average energy of the tiny particles inside a substance. So when you check the temperature of your cocoa, you’re finding out how much energy the cocoa's molecules have.

Key Points:

• Heat always flows from hot things to cold things.
• Temperature tells us about the energy of an object.

Examples:

• If you heat a pot of water on the stove, you are adding heat. This makes the temperature of the water go up.

To sum it up, think of heat as the energy that moves and temperature as the way we measure that energy!