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Which is an example of convection

• the heat coming from a campfire

• a spoon in a bowl of soup becoming warmer

• Warmer water at the surface of swimming pool

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Jimmy is a astronaut, when he was in space he drifted close to the sun. He said that he felt the hottest he had ever felt. What kind of heat transfer caused this?

• COMBUSTION

• Radiation

• Convection

• Conduction

How does heat 
energy from the 
sun reach Earth? 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• insulation

While stirring hot coffee a spoon becomes warm; the spoon gets hot due to

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• Insulation

Tina is boiling water in a metal pot for a weather experiment. What is most likely the reason she would need to use a pot holder for moving the metal pot?

• radiation causes the pot to be hot.

• Conduction causes the pot to be hot.

• Convection causes the pot to be hot.

• Transpiration causes the pot to be hot.

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

which of the following is an example of radiation?

• Macaroni moving around in a pot of boiling water.

• steam rising form a boiling pot of grits being cooked.

• The sun shining through a window and warming a table.

• Bacon frying in a pan.

A cold metal spoon is placed in a bowl of hot soup. which best describes how the spoon is affected?

• The heat from the soup does not affect the temperature of the spoon.

• the heat from the soup is conducted through the spoon, making the spoon warmer.

• The cold air in the room radiates into the soup, cooling it, and keeping the spoon cool.

• The cold from the spoon is conducted into the soup, causing the soup to cool to the same temperature as the spoon.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which is an example of radiation?

• boiling a pot of noodles for dinner

• Getting hot from lying in the sun

• feeling warm while taking a hot shower

• burning yourself after touching a hot plate

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

A boy touches a stove and gets burned. What transfer of heat caused his hand to get burned?

• radiation

• conduction

• convection

• combustion

Which best explains why a pan placed on a hot stove top will begin to warm?

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• insulation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3