Grade 7: Heat in the environment

Water bubbles up through a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. What method of heat transfer is this?

• Conduction
• Radiation
• Convection
• Specific Heat

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On a sunny day, you return to your car after a ball game. The inside of the car is very hot.  How did the car get so warm?

• Conduction
• Convection
• Radiation
• Specific Heat

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The inside window pane in your house feels very cold to touch on a winter night. Why does it feel cold?

• The cold from the outside is flowing in by convection.
• The warm from the inside is flowing out by convection.
• The cold from the outside is being conducted to the inside.
• The warm from the inside is being conducted to the outside.

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Heat is transferred directly from one particle of matter to another by the process of ____________________.

• Conduction

• Convection

Maria burned herself when she picked up a hot iron skillet from the stove.  What method of heat transfer caused the burn?

• Convection
• Conduction
• Specific Heat
• Radiation

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A circular flow of warmer fluid and cooler fluid is called a(an) __________________.

• convection current
• conduction current

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Heat is always transferred from _______________ areas.

• Warmer
• Cooler

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Heat that is transferred by the movement of currents within a fluid is called ____________________.

• Convection
• Conduction

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The only form of heat transfer that does not require matter is ____________________.

• Conduction
• Radiation

This is an example of a(n)

• conductor of heat
• insulator of heat

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