Thermal Energy and Heat

If you were to design an object to conduct heat, which material would you use?

• wood

• plastic

• metal

• fabric

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Which is an example of convection?

• the sun

• boiling water

• touching a hot pan

• throwing a baseball

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What types of energy does burning wood give off?

• light energy

• thermal energy

• chemical potential energy

• all of the above

Which is an example of conduction?

• the sun

• touching a hot pan

• boiling water

• throwing a baseball

What items would be appropriate for exploring thermal energy (select 5)?

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What items would be appropriate for exploring thermal energy?

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Match the following

• transfer of thermal energy (heat) between objects when their atoms collide.

• Convection

• Energy transferred from one object to another

• Conduction

• transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another

• Radiation

• measure of the average kinetic (motion) energy of the individual atoms or molecules in a substance

• Temperature

•  transfer of energy (heat) through space by electromagnetic waves.

• Heat

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On a sunny day, the sidewalk and the street are both warmer than the atmosphere because they have more ​ (a)   due to energy transfer by ​ (b)   from the sun.

• thermal energy

• heat

• radiation

• conduction

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Thermal energy is just the total ​ (a)   energy in a substance. The faster the particles in a substance move, the ​ (b)   the substance becomes. The less the particles in a substance move, ​ (c)   the substance becomes.

• kinetic

• hotter

• colder

• potential

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The direction in which heat transfers depends on ​ (a)  

• temperature.

• weight.

• mass.

• heat.

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