Science Chapter 12 - Heat Test

Choose the words that belong in the sentence. As an object ( ), the particles move ( ).

• cools, slower

• warms, slower

• cools, in a straighter line

• warms, in a straighter line

The liquid inside a thermometer contracts. What does this mean about the substance it is measuring?

• The substance is heating up.

• The substance is cooling down.

• The substance is staying the same.

• The substance cannot be measured.

What is the measure of the average amount of motion in particles of matter?

• heat

• mass

• volume

• temperature

How is heat moving from a stove to a pot sitting on a burner on the stove.

• radiation

• insulation

• convection

• conduction

What are insulators?

• Materials that allow no heat to pass through them.

• Materials that readily allow heat to pass through them.

• Materials that both limit and allow heat to pass through them.

• Materials that limit the amount of heat that passes through them.

What forms when heated air expands and cooler air sinks below the warmer air?

• thermal current

• radiation current

• convection current

• conduction current

What are you feeling when you feel the warmth from a light bulb on your skin?

• radiation

• conduction

• solar energy

• convection currents

What does thermal energy measure?

• Thermal energy measures the location of moving particles.

• Thermal energy measures only how fast particles are moving.

• Thermal energy measures the total energy of moving particles.

• Thermal energy measures the average energy of moving particles.

Which method of heat transfer does not require matter? (It can travel through a gas.)

• radiation

• insulation

• convection

• conduction

Which of the following is an example of convection?

• The Sun warms your skin.

• You rub your hands together quickly.

• A metal spoon in soup becomes warm.

• A mobile turns from a candle burning below it.