Term the Definition
Heat
What equation(s)?
Boiling, condensing, freezing, and melting
CDA Staff Trivia
100

The state that exists when two objects (or an object and its environment) are at the same temperature and there is no heat flow between them.

What is thermal equilibrium?

100

Tire pressure in Texas is naturally increased or decreased in July due to summer heat.

What is increased?

100

Nitrogen liquefies at 77.0 K. What equation do you need to convert this temperature to Celsius?

TC=T- 32

100

The point in the Kelvin scale of temperature that atoms completely cease all movement.

What is absolute zero?

100

This CDA staff member was smuggled past Israeli guards into the Arab quarter for dinner at the apartments inside the Dome of the Rock/Temple Mount site.

Who is Mrs. Zylstra.

200

The sum of all the kinetic energies possessed by all particles in a substance.

What is internal energy?

200

What type of heat transfer is a pot touching the heating coil of a stove.

What is conduction?


200

The volume of a quarter coin is approximately 808.93 mm3. A stack of 10 quarters weighs 0.1255 lb. If you are determining the mass, what equation do you use?

FW=mg

200
The temperature at which water freezes in Farenheit.

What is 32 degrees Farenheit?

200

This CDA staff member is married to a descendant of both President William Henry Harrison and a famous confederate general.

Who is Mrs. Lee.

300

Energy an object possesses due to being heated.

What is thermal energy?

300

Air being heated by the sun on a beach and lifting, causing cooler air off the water surface to rush in to fill the vacating air is an example of what kind of heat transfer?

Convection

300

The volume of a quarter coin is approximately 808.93 mm3. The mass of one quarter is 5.699 g. If you are determining the density, what equation do you use?

P=m/V

300

The temperature that water boils in Celsius.

What is 100 degrees Celsius?

300

This CDA staff member has been to Italy 3 times.

Who is Mrs. Salo.

400

The amount of heat that must be added to or removed from one grams of a substance to change its temperature 1 degree Celcius (1 K).

What is specific heat capacity?

400

In Alaska, do car tires need to be inflated or deflated during the winter months?

Inflated, due to the lack of movement in the gas molecules making the pressure inside the tire lower.

400

A speeding car is going 92.39 mph when it sees a police officer. After the driver sees the cop, he slows the car to 58.2 mph in 4.92 seconds. If determining the acceleration of the car, what equation will you use?  

a= v- vi / t

400

The temperature that water boils in Fahrenheit.

What is 212 degrees Fahrenheit?

400

This CDA staff member toured Europe playing the flute.

Who is Mrs. Kogut.

500

A physical property that indicates the ability of a substance to conduct heat.

What is thermal conductivity?

500

What kind of heat transfer is sunlight on a metal shed.

Radiant (conductive also acceptable).

500

A car traveling at 45.75 mph has a momentum of 30,123 kg∙m/s. If determining the mass of this vehicle, what equation is used?

p =mv

500

Yes you will receive double points, ONLY if you write both temperatures correctly.

Absolute zero in BOTH Fahrenheit and Celsius

What is -459.7 degrees Fahrenheit and -273.2 degrees Celsius?

500

This CDA staff member grew out their hair during COVID, and in 2023 donated 11" of hair to Wigs for Kids.

Who is Mrs. Zellmer.

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