Specific Heat and Latent Heat

What is specific heat?

• How well an object conducts heat.

• The amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of pure substance by 1°C

• The amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of mixture by 10°C

• The energy needed for a state change.

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NGSS.HS-PS3-4

What is latent heat?

• How well an object conducts heat.

• The amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of pure substance by 1°C

• The amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of mixture by 10°C

• The energy needed for a state change.

Select the state changes for the latent heat of fusion (L_fus)

• Melting

• Freezing

• Boiling

• Condensing

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Select the state changes for the latent heat of vaporization (L_vap)

• Melting

• Freezing

• Boiling

• Condensing

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

During a state change the temperature is ___________.

• variable

• decreasing

• increasing

• constant

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

High specific heat objects are _____ to heat up.

• easy

• hard

Select the state change where in kinetic energy is increasing.

• Melting

• Freezing

• Boiling

• Condensing

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Select the state change where in kinetic energy is decreasing.

• Melting

• Freezing

• Boiling

• Condensing

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Select the exothermic state changes.

• Melting

• Freezing

• Boiling

• Condensing

Select the endothermic state changes.

• Melting

• Freezing

• Boiling

• Condensing

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4