Heat Transfer and Layers

You wake up on a Saturday morning and are glad you don’t have to go to school. You sit outside in the sun because you don’t really feel like doing anything at all. The heat from the sun is starting to make you sweat.

• conduction
• convection 
• radiation

It’s boring sitting in the house on your day off, so you go to the pool to meet your friends. You jump in and the water is freezing but you don’t want to look like a wimp so you try to get used to it. Your lips are turning blue and your skin now feels cold

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

You climb out of the pool and lie on the warm concrete to warm your body back up.

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

What is true of a pot and a penny with equal temperatures? 

• they have the same thermal energy
• they are both gaining thermal energy
• the penny has more thermal energy
• the pot has more thermal energy 

What is the lowest layer in the atmosphere? 

• troposphere
• mesosphere
• ionosphere
• stratosphere 

What is the hottest layer in the atmosphere? 

• mesosphere
• thermosphere
• troposphere 
• ionosphere

What is the second layer of the atmosphere? 

• stratosphere 
• troposphere 
• mesosphere 
• thermosphere 

Which of the following is a greenhouse gas? 

• Oxygen
•  Carbon Dioxide
• propane

What happens to most solar radiation when it reaches the surface of the Earth? 

• It reflects right back into space. 
• Its collected in solar panels. 
• Its absorbed by water, land, and plants. 
• It disperses throughout the atmosphere.