Temperature Scales
Methods of Heat Transfer
Mystery Category
Specific Heat & Latent Heat
Potential and Kinetic Energy
100
This scale is used only in the United States. On it, water boils at 212 degrees and freezes at 32 degrees.
What is Fahrenheit?
100
This method of heat transfer involves objects in direct contact. It is the transfer of energy as heat through a material.
What is Conduction?
100

At this lowest temperature possible, the energy within an object is zero.

What is absolute zero?

100
This is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1kg of something by 1 degree.
What is Specific Heat?
100
This value is calculated by multiplying one half mass times velocity squared.
What is Kinetic Energy?
200
This scale was created to use for calculations involving very low temperatures. It is calculated by adding 273 degrees to the temperature in Celsius.
What is Kelvin?
200
This method of heat transfer is is the movement of matter through warm fluids. It occurs because of differences in density caused by temperature variations.
What is Convection?
200
This is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is Temperature?
200
The specific heat of water is 4184 while for carbon it is 709. Which requires more energy to heat?
What is water?
200
This value is calculated by multiplying mass times height times acceleration due to gravity.
What is Gravitational Potential Energy? (accept GPE or potential energy)
300
This is the most commonly used temperature scale in the world, on which water freezes at zero degrees and boils at one hundred degrees.
What is Celsius?
300
This method of heat transfer is the transfer of energy (heat) through electromagnetic waves, such as visible light and infrared waves
What is Radiation?
300
This is the energy transferred between objects at different temperatures.
What is Heat?
300
This is the identity of a 6kg piece of matter that requires 2,700 J of energy to raise its temperature by 1˚C?
What is IRON?
300
This is the kinetic energy of a truck that has a mass of 2900 kg and is moving at 55 m/s.
What is 80,000 Joules? (Accept 79,750 Joules or J)
400
This is the temperature in Celsius if the Kelvin temperature is 276.
What is 3 degrees Celsius?
400

This is the method of heat transfer occurs when the suns rays warm the Earth.

What is Radiation?

400
This states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
400

If the kettle is left running so that it supplies another 12000J of energy, how much of the water will have evaporated and turned from a liquid into a gas?

What is 5.2g?

400
This is the potential energy of a rock with a mass of 55 kg sitting on a cliff that is 27m high
What is 15,000 J? (Accept 14,553 J or Joules)
500
This is the temperature in Kelvin if the temperature in Fahrenheit is 70 degrees.
What is 294 K?
500

This is the method of heat transfer that involves a vibrational (not translational) movement of molecules.

What is Conduction?

500
The name of the symbol represented as a triangle (∆) that means "change in" something.
What is delta?
500

The amount of energy that is required to increase the temperature of the water from 20C to boiling point, 100C.

What is 672,000J?

500
Of the two, the object that has more potential energy: A 45,000 kg rock situated 1 meter from the ground or a 2 kg rock situated 40,000 m above the ground.
What is the 2 kg rock.
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