Transfer of Energy Lesson

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

• Conduction
• Radiation
• Convection
• Density

Which of the following is an example of convection?

• A hair dryer is drying up your hair.
• When the AC or heater changes the temperature.
• When a car engine turns hot after being turned on.
• When you are making noodles and the water is boiling

The heat from a hot burner to a pot is transferred by ______.

• convection
• insulation
• radiation
• conduction

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

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation 

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

• Radiation
• Conduction
• Convection

The baby chickens are kept warm from the heat lamps demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

Steam rising off of hot coffee is an example of

• convection
• radiation
• insulation
• conduction

Heat transfers from an area of ____temperature to an area of ___ temperature.

• high to low
• low to high
• high to high
• It can travel high to low and low to high. 

Walking on the warm sand with your bare feet demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

The Gulf Stream is a current that brings warm ocean water from the south to the north. What type of heat transfer is this?

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation