Thermal Energy Quiz

Conduction is heat tranferred by ________

• Waves

• Electricity

• Currents

• Touch

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

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Law of Conservation of Energy

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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

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What happens to the particles as the temperature goes up?

• Nothing

• They don't move

• They slow down

• They speed up

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Heat transfer always goes from ________

• hot to cold

• cold to hot

• freezing to cold

• heat doesn't transfer

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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.

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Match the following

• Thermal or heat energy transfer

• Ability to do work

• Matter

• When molecules of different temperatures interact

• Potential energy

• Has mass and takes up space

• Molecules

• Two or more atoms combined

• Energy

• Stored energy

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