SC.4.11.1/11.2 Assessment Review

Marcus used a metal spoon to stir a pot of boiling water. Which statement best describes what Marcus can expect to happen next?

• The temperature of the metal spoon will increase

• The temperature of the metal spoon will decrease. 

• The temperature of the metal spoon will not change. 

• The temperature of the water has no effect on the spoon. 

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Which of the following would you expect to be a good conductor of heat? 

• plastic

• styrofoam

• metal 

• wood 

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

Ms. Niles placed a steel block with a temperature of 150 °F into a cup of water with a temperature of 50 °F. After 5 minutes the temperature of the water measured 85 °F. 

 

Which statement is true? 

• Cold flowed out of the water into the steel block. 

• Heat flowed out of the steel block into the water. 

• Heat flowed into both the water and the steel block. 

• 
  Cold flowed out of both the water and the steel block. 

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Which direction does heat flow?

• from solid objects to liquids

• 
  from light objects to heavy objects

• 
  from larger objects to smaller objects

• from warmer objects to cooler objects

Maya wanted to find out how long it would take for an ice cube to melt if it was placed in a cup and surrounded with different materials. Here is what she did:

• She found four identical cups and four identical boxes.

• She placed one cup with a large ice cube in it into each box.

• She surrounded each cup with either cotton, wood chips, or foam peanuts, and she left one cup with nothing around it.

• She observed the size of the ice cube in each box every two minutes to compare what happened.

Why did she use different materials around the cup inside each box?

• She was trying to measure the amount of water in an ice cube.

• She was trying to compare insulation properties of different materials.

• She was trying to measure how much water would leak out of the cups.

• She was trying to compare conduction properties of the cups to the boxes.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

Which statement describes an insulator?

• a closed loop that electricity flows through

• an object that has the properties of a metal

• a material that allows electricity to easily flow through it

• a material that prevents electricity from flowing through it

Matt noticed that when his dad cooked hot soup on the stove, he always stirred the pot with a certain spoon. The spoon was metal, but it had plastic covering its handle.

Which is the best reason a metal spoon used for stirring hot soup would have plastic covering its handle?

• to allow heat from the hand to cool the soup

• to keep heat from the hand from cooling the soup

• to allow the handle to transfer heat to a person's hand

• to keep the handle from transferring heat to a person's hand

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

A student heated a piece of copper wire in a lab oven to 70 degrees Celsius (°C). He dropped the piece of wire into a cup of room temperature water and recorded the temperature of the water over 60 seconds (s).

Which statement correctly describes the flow of energy that caused the temperature of the water to change?

• Heat flowed from the air to the water.

• Heat flowed from the air to the copper.

• Heat flowed from the water to the copper.

• Heat flowed from the copper to the water.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

After baking cookies in the oven, Jason placed the hot baking sheet into a sink of cold water.

In which direction does heat flow to change temperature?

• Heat from the water flows to the pan, and the pan temperature decreases.

• Heat from the water flows to the pan, and the pan temperature increases.

• Heat from the pan flows to the water, and the water temperature increases.

• Heat from the pan flows to the water, and the water temperature decreases.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Why is it important to use a pot holder when removing a hot pan from the oven?

• To allow the pan to heat up faster

• To keep the pan's temperature constant

• To prevent heat from transferring to your hand

• To prevent the pan from cooling too quickly

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3