Thermal Energy Review

Which of the following demonstrates how heat can be transferred across a distance?

• A beaker of water warmed on a hot plate

• A plate of warm food cooling off over time

• A person warmed by sitting near a campfire

• Warm air rising from a hot road surface

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Thermal energy transfers from one object to another only when –

• one object is larger than the other.

• the objects have different temperatures.

• objects are of the same state of matter.

• he surfaces of the objects are touching.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Thermal energy always moves from -

• warmer to cooler objects.

• cooler to warmer objects.

• liquids to solids.

• darker to lighter objects.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Heat transfer is the moving of energy from objects that have different –

• Temperatures

• Masses

• States of Matter

• Volume

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Conduction is heat transfer by direct contact. Which of these describes an object being heated by conduction?

• The surface of the Earth being heated by the Sun

• A chocolate bar melting in a hot pan

• A radiator heating the people in a room

• Warm air rising to the second floor of a house

If a spoon is placed on a hot stove, the spoon will get hot. This happens because –

• the spoon is very small.

• the spoon is not very heavy.

• he spoon is touching the stove.

• he stove uses electricity.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Which term matches the following definition: how hot or cold something is

• Increas

• Temperature

• Decrease

• Energy

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which term matches the following definition: Energy that causes a transfer of heat between materials

• Temperature

• Thermometer

• Thermal Energy

• Conduction

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

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All of the following are examples of heat transfer through direct contact between objects EXCEPT-

• a pot of soup warming on a hot burner.

• hot concrete burning your bare feet.

• beach sand getting warmed by the Sun.

• a crayon melting on a hot sidewalk.