Thermal Energy Quiz

Conduction is heat tranferred by ________

• Waves

• Electricity

• Currents

• Touch

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Warm air rises and cool air sinks. This describes which type of thermal energy transfer?

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Law of Conservation of Energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The sun warms your skin when you are outside. This is an example of which type of thermal energy transfer?

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Law of Conservation of Energy

Walking on warm sand with bare feet demonstrates which type of thermal energy transfer?

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Law of Conservation of Energy

When you hold an ice cube in your hand, heat transfers from

• the ice cube to your hand

• your hand to the ice cube

• nowhere, because heat isn't transferred

Molecules in a cup of water will have the most kinetic energy if they are _________

• in a freezer

• near a hot fire

• outside in a snow storm

• at sea level

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What happens to the particles as the temperature goes up?

• Nothing

• They don't move

• They slow down

• They speed up

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Heat transfer always goes from ________

• hot to cold

• cold to hot

• freezing to cold

• heat doesn't transfer

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

The Law of Conservation of Energy says that:

• Energy CANNOT be created or destroyed but it CAN be changed into another form of energy.

• Energy CAN be created or destroyed but it CANNOT be changed into another form of energy.

• Energy CANNOT be created or destroyed or changed into another form of energy.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Match the following

• Thermal or heat energy transfer

• Ability to do work

• Matter

• Two or more atoms combined

• Molecules

• Stored energy

• Energy

• Has mass and takes up space

• Potential energy

• When molecules of different temperatures interact

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-2