Heat Transfer

Match the term with the correct definition.

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• The transfer of thermal energy between two bodies which are at different temperatures.

• Heat

• this law states that, in any process, energy is neither created nor destroyed. It can only be converted from one form to another.

• Joule

• The SI (metric) unit of energy or work.

• Kinetic Energy

• Energy of motion

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Putting an ice pack on an injury

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Heat from a fire warming your hands

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

warm air rising off the pavement

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Burning yourself by touching boiling water

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

Heat from the sun reaching a solar panel

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Cooking in an oven that cycles hot air from bottom to top

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Grabbing a warm coffee mug to warm your hands

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Cooking popcorn using a microwave

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Warm water rising from the bottom of the ocean and cold water sinking

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6