Which type of heat transfer happens when you burn your hand on the stove?
Conduction
Movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
Heat
The average kinetic energy of the particles that make up a material.
Temperature
Material through which thermal, sound, and electrical energy flows easily.
Conductors
You stay too long in a tanning bed and your skin gets burned
Radiation
A friend tells you that insulation keeps out the cold. Explain why this statement is incorrect.
Heat is transferred from hot to cold. So insulation actually keeps the warm in, not the cold out.
Liquids and gases
Fluids
Styrofoam prevented outside air transferring energy to the fish inside the cooler
Styrofoam is an insulator
Radiation is...
heat transfer through electromagnetic waves
Your hand feels cold when you place it on the lab bench
Your hand is losing thermal energy heat because it is transferring into the lab bench
You are supposed to get low toward the floor if you are ever caught in a building or house fire. The hotter air and smoke will rise and the cooler air will sink. What type of heat transfer does this represent?
Convection
True or False. Heat and thermal energy are the same thing.
False
You conduct an investigation comparing the cooling rates of a container of 100 C water and a container of 50 C water. Name two control variables you would use.
water volume, size of container, time, environment temp, etc.
Styrofoam prevents the transfer of energy.
insulator
A bowl of hot soup cools less than a small mug of of the same temperature soup in thirty minutes.
size matters or bowl of soup is larger than the mug and contains more thermal energy.
The Three ways thermal energy is transferred are...
What is Radiation, Conduction, Convection
Heat flows from
warmer to cooler temperature
Heat rising and cooling to form currents in a fluid
What is convection?
Fill in the blanks

a) radiation
b) convection
c) conduction
In the designing a better cooler activity: The temperature after 4 hours (variable).
dependent variable?
Heat moves in one direction. How does an air conditioner show that?
air conditioner removes heat from hot inside air, lowering the energy and temperature of the inside air.
Transfer of thermal energy between materials by direct collision of particles.
Conduction
Container A has 20 molecules with an avg. Ke (temp) of 25 C. Container B has 40 molecules with an avg. Ke of 25 C. Which has a higher thermal energy and WHY? Must have both answers to get the points and bussin candy!
container B because thermal energy is defined as total Ke of all molecules, and B has more molecules than A.
Why do homes in warm climates often have white roofs?
Prevent radiation by reflecting light/heat off the house
System: 10 C + 9 C + 11 C Temperature
10 C
True or false. Does hot cocoa heat the surrounding air?
True
More thermal energy:
- A 100L pot of 100 C water
- A 50L pot of 100 C water
100L pot of boiling water (more mass (molecules)= more energy!)
A large system with a total Ke of 6 when combined with a system with a total Ke of 7 will have a thermal energy of___.
13
The scale that Absolute Zero is measured on (hint: named after a dude)
Kelvin
Transfer of thermal energy through empty space
Radiation
You drop your ice cream on a hot pavement on a summer day.
your ice cream comes to equilibrium with the pavement temp.
A.

B.

A has more thermal energy because
SIZE MATTERS! or A has more molecules than B, and thermal energy is total Ke of an object or system.
Explain why the statement that ice cools down a glass of water is incorrect.
water gives its energy to the ice, thus removing energy from the water cooling it down.
An air conditioner cooling down a room shows a system coming into equilibrium. True/False.
False. Air conditioner can cool a room LOWER than the outside temperature.
Your air conditioner breaks. The air in your room becomes warmer. System is coming to equilibrium. (True/False)
True. System is coming into equilibrium with outside temperature.