Chapters 15 & 16: Heat & Temperature

If two objects have different temperatures, heat will flow from the cooler object to the warmer one.

• true
• false

When heat is transferred by the movement of currents within a fluid it is called 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

When heat is transferred from one particle of matter to another without the movement of the matter it is called

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

5. Heat is....

• How hot something is.
• How cold something is.
• The measure of how much energy moved from one place to another.

The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves is called

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• null

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The transfer of thermal energy between objects of different temperatures is called...

• temperature
• heat
• internal energy
• none of these

True/False: when two substances reach the same temperature they are in thermal equilibrium.

• True
• False

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The total of all energies in a substance is its...

• temperature
• heat
• internal energy
• specific heat

Temperature is a measure of the...

• total energy in a substance
• total kinetic energy in a substance
• average potential energy in a substance
• average kinetic energy of molecules in a substance

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True/False: a good conductor of heat usually composed of atoms with tightly-bound electrons.

• True
• False