Heat Movement

As you hold pieces of ice, they begi to melt from the warmth of you hand on them. This is because of

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

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A group of friends gather around a fire to stay warm.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

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The Gulf Stream is a current that brings warm ocean water from the south to the north.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

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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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___________________ is the type of heat transfer that occurs in fluids, such as warm air rising and cold air sinking; creating wind.

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

• insulation.

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Scientists think that convection currents that move the plates flow in Earth's

• Continental crust

• Oceanic crust

• mantle

• outer core

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Ruth puts her spoon into a helping of fresh, hot, mashed potatoes as shown in the figure below. Which process takes place when the two objects come together?

• The thermal energy of both the mashed potatoes and the spoon increases as energy in the form of heat is transferred between them

• The temperature of the spoon increases, but its thermal energy does not change

• Energy in the form of heat is transferred from the warmer mashed potatoes to the cooler spoon

• The average temperature of the spoon does not change

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Kenia places her cold drink on the roof of a hot car. Which of the following correctly describes what happens next?

• the temperature of the drink increases as it sends cold into the hot metal of the car

• the temperature of the area under the drink decreases until it is the same temperature as the cold drink

• cold is transferred from the drink into the metal of the car, decreasing the temperature of the roof

• heat is transferred from the car into the drink, increasing the temperature of the drink

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Mrs. Munoz added a room-temperature copper (Cu) cube and an aluminum (Al) cube that she just removed from the freezer to a beaker of boiling water. She left the cubes in the water for three hours.  Which of the following describes a heat flow that took place during those three hours?

• from the aluminum cube to the beaker

• from the copper cube to the boiling water

• from the boiling water to the aluminum cube

• from the aluminum cube to the copper cube

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