Thermal Energy Quiz

Heat transfer in the image.

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

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Heat transfer in boiling water.

• Conduction
• Convection
• Radiation

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The heat transfer in the image is by

• convection
• conduction
• radiation

On a cold rainy day a baby is touching a cold window.  It feels so cold. Which way is the heat moving moving? 

• Cold is moving from the window to the hand.
• Heat is moving from the hand to the window.
• Heat doesn't move.
• It moves in currents

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Heat transfer in wind.

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

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When you use a microwave, what is the main way that heat is transferred?

• Convection
• Conduction
• Radiation

The Gulf Stream is a current that brings warm ocean water from the south to the north. What type of heat transfer is this?

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• insulation 

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Heat transfers from an area of ____temperature to an area of ___ temperature.

• high to low
• low to high
• high to high
• It can travel high to low and low to high. 

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

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation 

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An iron bar is placed in a flame, as shown, and is heated until the end glows.The other end of the iron bar soon becomes hot, too.  Which of the following statements best describes why the iron bar becomes hot to the touch?

• a convective flow of energy is set up inside the iron bar.
• energy is conducted from atom to atom along the length of the iron bar.

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