Introduction to Heat and Temperature Quiz

What is the main difference between heat and temperature, and why is it important to distinguish them?

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Where in everyday life have you seen an example where the temperature changes, but the amount of heat remains constant?

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How does the concept of temperature apply to understanding how things feel hot or cold? Is this always the same as how much heat is involved?

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Heat is the transfer of energy from an object with a higher temperature to an object with a lower temperature.

• True

• False

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What is heat?

• A form of energy that can make things feel hot or cold

• The measure of how fast the particles in an object are moving

• The temperature of an object

• A type of energy that does not move

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What happens to the temperature of an object as it absorbs heat?

• The temperature stays the same.

• The temperature increases.

• The temperature decreases.

• The temperature first increases and then decreases.

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When you hold a snowflake in your hand, the heat from your hand causes the snowflake to melt.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is an example of heat transfer?

• A thermometer measuring the temperature of water

• A snowflake forming in the sky

• A spoon heating up when placed in hot soup

• A person using a fan to cool off

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Which of these is a good example of heat moving from one object to another?

• The sun heating the Earth

• Water cooling down in a glass

• A piece of ice melting

• All of the above

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Temperature and heat are the same thing.

• True

• False

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