Heat Transfer Practice Questions

Choose the answer that best completes each statement. The total energy of all the particles in a substance is called ____.

• temperature

• thermal energy

• degrees

• mass

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Choose the answer that best completes each statement. The movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object is called ____.

• heat

• temperature

• motion

• momentum

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Choose the answer that best completes each statement. Heat, like work, is an energy transfer measured in ____.

• watts

• degrees

• joules

• kelvins

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Choose the answer that best completes each statement. Heat is transferred from one particle of matter to another without the movement of matter itself in a process called ____.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• insulation

Choose the answer that best completes each statement. The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves is called ____.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• insulation

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Choose the answer that best completes each statement. Heat transfer occurs ____.

• in many directions

• both from warm objects to colder ones and from cold objects to warmer ones

• only from warm objects to colder ones

• only from cold objects to warmer ones

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Choose the answer that best completes each statement. A material that does NOT conduct heat well is called a (an) ____.

• insulator

• conductor

• metal

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of a substance by 1 kelvin is called its ____.

• specific heat

• heat transfer

• change of state

• melting point

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which of these substances has the highest specific heat?

• aluminum

• glass

• sand

• water

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

How many different forms, or states, does most matter on Earth exist in?

• one

• two

• three

• fifty

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4