Thermal Energy

You put frozen blueberries in hot oatmeal. You notice that this cooled the oatmeal so that it’s soon ready to eat. Which idea do you think best explains why the oatmeal cooled?

• The coldness from the blueberries moved into the oatmeal.

• The heat from the oatmeal moved into the blueberries.

• The coldness and the heat moved back and forth until the oatmeal cooled off.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which statement best describes the flow of thermal energy?

• Thermal energy flows from cold things to warm things.

• Thermal energy flows down due to gravity.

• Thermal energy does not flow.

• Thermal energy flows from warm things to cold things.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What can happen to matter if you continue to add or remove thermal energy?

• It will remain the same, nothing will change.

• It will change the state of matter.

• It will decrease the total energy.

• It will destroy the matter.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the appropriate change in state of matter?

Dry ice turns into a cloud at a party

• Freezing

• Sublimation

• Evaporation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the appropriate change in state of matter?

Making fruit juice popsicles

• Freezing

• Sublimation

• Evaporation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the appropriate change in state of matter?

Boiling water to cook pasta

• Freezing

• Sublimation

• Evaporation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the appropriate change in state of matter?

Frost forms on a plant on a cold morning

• Melting

• Deposition

• Condensation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the appropriate change in state of matter?

Ice cream left outside on a hot day

• Melting

• Deposition

• Condensation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the appropriate change in state of matter?

Water forms on the outside of a glass of iced tea

• Melting

• Deposition

• Condensation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Identify each of the following as an example....

Macaroni rising and falling in a pot of boiling water

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation