Heat Transfer Notes

Multiple Choice

How is heat transferred?

• from colder to warmer objects

• from higher to lower objects

• from warmer to colder objects

• it is not transferred

Multiple Choice

What is conduction?

• heat transfer through currents

• heat transfer through direct touch

• heat transfer through open space

• heat transfer from the sun

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an example of heat transfer through conduction?

• pot on stove

• spoon in hot soup

• touching something hot

• warmth from the sun

Multiple Choice

How is heat transferred by convection?

• direct touch

• in currents

• through the sun

• touching a hot plate

Multiple Choice

What does fluid mean?

• water

• anything that flows

• air

• currents

Multiple Choice

As the fluid heat rises, it gets _____________ and starts to rise forcing the ____________ fluid air to sink.

• warmer, cooler

• cooler, warmer

• cooler, cooler,

• warmer, warmer

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an example of radiation?

• sun heating the Earth

• fire warming your front but not back

• heat radiating off a person

• fish tank heater warming the water.

Multiple Choice

What is the only way thermal energy can be transferred from the Sun to the Earth?

• radiation

• conduction

• convection

• air

Multiple Choice

What is radiation?

• transfer of heat by touching

• transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves

• transfer of heat through currents

• transfer of heat through a fish tank

Multiple Choice

What is a conductor?

• Something that transfers thermal energy really well

• something that conducts music really well

• something that does not transfer thermal energy well

• Ms. Wayne

Multiple Choice

What is a insulator?

• Something that transfers thermal energy really well

• something that conducts music really well

• something that does not transfer thermal energy well

• Ms. Wayne