GPE
Heat Transfer 1
Heat Transfer 2
Heat Transfer 3
Multiple choice
100

How could you increase the gravitational potential energy of an object without changing its mass?

Raise the object farther off the ground

100

What type of heat transfer is when hot fluids rise and cool fluids sink?

What is Convection

100

Heat moves from the _____ object to the ______ object.

hotter ; cooler

100

Feeling the warmth from a campfire. 

Radiation

100

Which best explains how roasting marshmallows happens?

a. Heat from the fire is conducted into the marshmallow.

b.  The coolness of the marshmallow is conducted into the fire.

c.  Heat from the fire is radiated into the marshmallow.

d.  The coolness of the marshmallow is radiated into the fire.

C
200

 

The least amount of potential energy is at

C

200

The transfer of heat energy from the sun to Earth.

Radiation

200

Beneath the Earth's crust hot magma is rising and cool magma sinking. 

Convection

200

Accidently burning your hand on a hot metal pan. 

Conduction.

200

A pot is heated on a stove.  Which process causes the metal handle of the pot to also become hot?

a.  combustion
b.  convection
c.  radiation
d.  conduction

D

300

Any form of energy is always measured in...

Joules (J)

300

What type of heat transfer occurs through direct contact when objects are touching?

What is Conduction

300

What method of heat transfer is this? 

Conduction (energy transfer via contact)

300

Radiation is when _____________ waves travel through space, without direct contact.

electromagnetic 

300

People sitting around a campfire are able to feel the heat from the fire.  How are the people able to feel the heat from the fire without touching the fire?

a.  The heat from the fire travels through the ground and heats the ground around the people.

b.  The heat from the fire is conducted through air molecules to the people.

c.  The heat from the fire rises in the air and then settles around the people.

d.  The heat from the fire radiates from the fire to the people.

D

400

What is the equation to work out Kinetic Energy

1/2 mass x velocity2

400

What method of energy transfer is this?

(Description: Heat flows from the hotter cup into the cooler hands. )

Conduction (energy transfer via contact)

400

What method of heat transfer is shown in the photo?

It is showing heat radiation

400

Name all modes of heat transfer. 

conduction, convection and radiation

400

Bill stands in a swimming pool and notices that the water around his feet is a lot cooler than the water near the surface.  Which process causes this difference in temperature?

a.  convection
b.  evaporation
c.  radiation
d.  conduction

A

500

What is the equation to work out gravitational potential energy?

mass x gravitational field strength x height

500

What method of heat transfer is shown here?

Convection heating (hot fluid rises, cool fluid sinks)

500

Describe an example of radiation.

Answers will vary. The warmth we feel from a fire.

500

Explain why it’s much colder at the bottom of a pool than at the top. 

Convection makes the cool water sink and the hot water rise. 

500

Stirring a cup of hot tea causes a metal spoon to get warm.  Which statement best explains why the spoon gets warm?

a.  Heat energy transfers from the metal spoon to the hot liquid.

b.  Heat energy transfers from the hot tea to the spoon.

c.  Heat energy transfers from the air to the hot liquid, and then to the spoon.

d.  Heat energy transfers from the hot liquid to the cup, and then to the spoon.

B

600

Sarah's book has a mass of 1.2kg. It is on a shelf that is 4.5m above the ground. The gravitational potential energy is...

52.92J

600


Which type of heat transfer is responsible for winds and precipitation, playing an important role in Earth's weather patterns.  

Convection

600

Give one specific example of convection.

Answers will vary. The convection currents in the ocean and atmosphere.

600

Describe an example of conduction. 

Answers will vary and must involve direct contact.

600


A spoon is placed into a mug of hot coffee.  As the spoon sits in the coffee it begins to get warm.  Which direction did the heat move?

a.  From the spoon to the coffee

b.  From the coffee to the spoon

c.  From the surroundings to the coffee


B