Thermal Energy and Energy Transfer

What kind of heat transfer happens when the sun is heating your body?

• Conduction
• Radiation
• Convection
• Density

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What heat transfer happens when you burn your hand by touching a fire?

• Radiation
• Conduction
• Convection
• I don't know!!!!!!!!!!!

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Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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What happens when ice cubes melt in a glass?

• Heat travels from the ice to the warmer water.
• No energy is transferred.
• Heat is transferred from the warmer water to the ice cubes.
• The water warms up due to the humidity

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Johnny accidentally grabbed the handle of the hot pot.

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

Your best friend has a bunk bed. You move from the bottom bunk to the top bunk and notice that the air is warmer. The warm air rises because of _?_.

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which of the following is the best example of conduction?

• A light bulb warming a lampshade
• An egg cooking in a frying pan
• Water boiling in a pot
• Gases circulating in the atmosphere

Feeling heat from a campfire

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

Which of the following energy transformations occur when a lamp that is plugged into a wall socket is functioning correctly?

• Chemical to light
• Electrical to chemical
• Electrical to light
• Chemical to electrical

Which of the following shows the correct energy transformation that occurs when the sun helps to grow a potato?

• chemical to thermal

• light to chemical

• thermal to light

• chemical to electrical

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