Science Court Heat

Emerson places a beaker of water on a hotplate and turns the hotplate on. The temperature in the room is 25 ºC. After the water heats to 75 ºC, she adds pieces of ice to the beaker.

Which of the following describes a transfer of heat energy that occurs during this experiment?

• from the air to the water

• from the ice to the beaker

• from the water to the ice

• from the water to the hotplate

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Joe places two solid objects in contact with each other. Which property determines the direction of the flow of heat between the two objects?

• material of the objects

• volume of objects

• density of objects

• temperature of objects

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Jeriah places two metal cubes in contact with each other. Energy transfers as heat flows from Cube A to Cube B. What conclusion can you draw regarding Cube A?

• It is larger than Cube B.

• It is cooler than Cube B.

• It is smaller than Cube B.

• It is warmer than Cube B.

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The measure of average kinetic energy of all the particles within an object is called ____________. 

• temperature
• conduction
• radiation
• heat 

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heat always travels from _____ to ______ objects

• hot to cold
• cold to hot
• cold to cold
• hot to hot

No Definite Shape and No Definite Volume

• Gas
• Liquid
• Solid

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When the temperature of matter decreases the particles ...

• speed up and move farther apart
• speed up and move closer together
• slow down and move farther apart
• slow down and move closer together

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When air in a hot air balloon is heated the air inside the baloon...

• expands
• contracts
• evaporates
• condenses

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As the kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance increases, the temperature of the substance __________.

• increases
• decreases

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In which state of matter are molecules moving the slowest?

• solid
• liquid
• gas
• all of the above

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