Heat Transfer in the Layers of the Earth

Match the following Types of heat transfer to the appropriate example of it

• Cooking a marshmallow while standing a good distance away from the fire

• Convection

• Walking on Hot sand and Burning your feet

• Radiation

• Water boiling in a kettle

• Conduction

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

What Direction does Heat Flow?

• From a colder object to a hotter object

• From a hotter object to a colder object

• Heat doesn't flow at all

• Heat flows randomly

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

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How is Energy from the sun transferred to Earth as heat?

• by radiation

• by conduction

• by convection

• by the force of gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What does a convection current transfer within a fluid?

• heat

• air

• water

• smoke

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which Layers of the Earth experience Convection Currents? (Mark all correct answers)

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid

• conduction

• radiation

• convection

• thermal energy

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The transfer of energy through space

• radiation

• convection

• conduction

• currents

heat currents in the magma that move from the interior of the Earth to the surface and drive plate tectonics

• ocean currents

• convection currents

• ocean currents

• wind currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Getting a sunburn on a summer day is an example of what type of heat transfer?

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• geothermal

Walking on the beach during the summer and feeling the heat on your toes is an example of.....

• radiation

• geothermal energy

• convection

• conduction