Quiz Heat Transfer

What kind of heat transfer happens when the sun is heating your body?

• Conduction
• Radiation
• Convection
• Density

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What heat transfer happens when you burn your hand by touching a fire?

• Radiation
• Conduction
• Convection
• I don't know!!!!!!!!!!!

Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation 

What happens when ice cubes melt in a glass?

• Heat travels from the ice to the warmer water.
• No energy is transferred.
• Heat is transferred from the warmer water to the ice cubes.
• The water warms up due to the humidity

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Transfer of thermal energy through "space"

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

The Law of Conservation of Energy states that

• energy is always created and destroyed.

• energy is neither created or destroyed, it just moves and transforms.

• energy is always created; but never destroyed or transformed.

Which action below is converting electrical to thermal energy?

• An electric vacuum cleaner

• An electric toothbrush

• An electric toaster

What affects the gravitational potential energy of an object?

• mass and volume

• length and width

• height and mass

• height and weight

Energy of motion is

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

• elastic energy

• chemical energy

____________________ occurs when snowflakes melt in your warm hands.

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• thermal balance