Heat Transfer

A student must choose three items to demonstrate conduction, convection, and radiation from solar energy. The student quickly chooses water and a metal bowl. Which of the following items should the student choose to complete the experiment?

• Rubber ball

• food coloring

• heat lamp

• ice cube

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which best explains how the Earth’s atmosphere is warmed?

• Radiation from the sun warms the surface and the atmosphere is heated through conduction and convection.

• Radiation from the sun warms the surface and the atmosphere is heated through evaporation and convection.

• Convection from the sun warms the surface and the atmosphere is heated through conduction and radiation.

• Convection from the sun warms the surface and the atmosphere is heated through evaporation and conduction.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

In heat transfer, heat always flows from the _______________ substance to the _______________ substance.

• Hotter to colder

• Colder to hotter

• Hotter to hotter

• Colder to colder

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

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

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• Insolation 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The way the heat is moving from the hot coffee is called...

• convection

• radiation

• insulation

• conduction

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The type of heat transfer that happens through direct contact of molecules or particles with each other is ___________________.

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

• insulation.

The kind of heat transfer that travels through space in electromagnetic waves is ______________________.

• insulation.

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Convection

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

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

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Convection

• Density

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

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Hot coffee is stirred with a spoon; the spoon gets hot due to

• conduction

• convection

• radiation