Thermal Energy Article

What is another name for heat energy?

• Thermal Energy

• Getting hot

• Polar Energy

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Energy transfer is how...

• heat radiates from one object to another

• heat changes one object to another

• heat travels from one object to another

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Conduction is a process by which heat...

• Is directly transferred through a substance

• pushed out of an object

• disappears

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What is an example of conduction?

• Burning a candle

• Boiling water

• Pouring a cup of hot cocoa

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Sun rays causing your body to get warm is an example of conduction.

• True

• False

Which is NOT an example of convection?

• warming your hands over a fire

• being hot on the second story of a home

• boiling a pot of water 

The heat transfer in a hot air balloon is an example of convection.

• True

• False

Convection is… 

• the movement of heated particles

• the transfer of heat by touching an object

• the transfer of heat that moves out 

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What causes denser liquid and gas to fall?

• Friction

• Gravity

• Weight

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Cooler air is… 

• less dense so it falls 

• more dense so it falls 

• less dense so it rises