Mr. O'Neal drinks a cup of coffee every morning before work. When it is too hot to drink, he adds an ice cube to it. Which of the following best explains what is happening in the coffee cup after the ice has been added?

• Cold from the ice transfers to the warm coffee.

• Heat from the warm coffee transfers to the ice.

• Heat from the warm coffee sinks to the bottom of the cup.

• The warm coffee does not let the cold escape from the ice.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Troy is holding a snowball in his bare hands. Which statement is true?

• Cold energy from the snowball is absorbed by the warm air

• Heat energy from the air is evaporated by the cold snowball.

• Heat energy from Troy's hand is transferred to the cold snowball.

• Cold energy from the snowball is transferred to Troy's warm hands

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Patsy puts some ice cubes in a glass of lemonade that is at room temperature. After the ice is done melting in the glass of lemonade, what will be true?

• The lemonade will become as cold as the ice was before it melted.

• The water from the melted ice will dissolve into the warmer lemonade.

• The water from the melted ice will become warmer than the lemonade.

• The lemonade and water from the melted ice will be the same temperature.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Clayton is building a solar oven. He wants the inside of his oven to be covered with a material that will conduct heat energy. Which one of the following materials would be the best conductor of heat energy?

• foil

• wood

• plastic wrap

• wool blanket

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

While cooking soup for dinner, Andy's mother answers the phone and leaves two spoons in the pot as shown below. When she returns to check on the soup, what does she most likely observe?

• Both of the spoons made the soup colder.

• Both of the spoons got hotter than the soup.

• The metal spoon stayed cooler than the wooden spoon.

• The wooden spoon stayed cooler than the metal spoon.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4