Thermal Energy grab bag
Thermal Energy transfer
Baby it's cold outside
Thermal Energy transfer 2
Thermal Energy 5
100

Which type of heat transfer happens when you burn your hand on the stove? 

Conduction

100

Movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.

Heat

100

The average kinetic energy of the particles that make up a material.

Temperature

100

Material through which thermal, sound, and electrical energy flows easily.

Conductors

100

You stay too long in a tanning bed and your skin gets burned

Radiation

200

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. 

200

Liquids and gases

Fluids

200

Styrofoam prevented outside air transferring energy to the fish inside the cooler

Styrofoam is an insulator

200

Radiation is...

heat transfer through electromagnetic waves

200

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

300

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

300

True or False. Heat and thermal energy are the same thing.

False

300

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.

300

Styrofoam prevents the transfer of energy.

insulator

300

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.

400

The Three ways thermal energy is transferred are...

What is Radiation, Conduction, Convection

400

Heat flows from

warmer to cooler temperature

400

Heat rising and cooling to form currents in a fluid

What is convection?

400

Fill in the blanks

a) radiation

b) convection

c) conduction

400

In the designing a better cooler activity: The temperature after 4 hours (variable).

dependent variable?

500

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.

500

Transfer of thermal energy between materials by direct collision of particles.

Conduction

500

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.

500

Why do homes in warm climates often have white roofs?

Prevent radiation by reflecting light/heat off the house

500

System: 10 C + 9 C + 11 C Temperature

10 C

600

True or false. Does hot cocoa heat the surrounding air?

True

600

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!)

600

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

600

The scale that Absolute Zero is measured on (hint: named after a dude)

Kelvin

600

Transfer of thermal energy through empty space

Radiation

700

You drop your ice cream on a hot pavement on a summer day.

your ice cream comes to equilibrium with the pavement temp.

700

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.

700

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.

700

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.

700

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.