Heat Transfer
Use the following terms to answer questions 1-10: convection, conduction, radiation
1. Why do your hands feel warmer when you hold a cup of hot chocolate?
2. While grilling hamburgers, the meat is placed directly over the coals instead of to the side of the coals to
increase the heat transfer by _______
3. The transfer of energy that does not require any matter is _____________.
4. How does energy from the sun travel to Earth?
5. The heat from a pot on the stove moves to the pot’s handle by __________.
6. Tanning lamps transfer thermal energy primarily by which of the above means?
7. As you sit across the room from a fireplace, you feel its warmth due to heat transferred by _________.
8. As wood is burned in a fireplace much of the thermal energy is lost to the outside environment through
the chimney. This transfer of heat is accomplished by which method?
9. Soaring birds, such as hawks, ride “updrafts” of warm air. These “updrafts” are examples of ________.
10. When you iron clothes they become hot because of _________.
11. Which of the following substances would heat not travel by convection through:
water, soup, air, concrete
12. All of the following are good conductors of heat except (there may be more than one answer):
a. Air
b. aluminum c. copper
d. silver
e. Styrofoam f. glass
Heat Transfer
Use the following terms to answer questions 1-10: convection, conduction, radiation
1. Why do your hands feel warmer when you hold a cup of hot chocolate?
2. While grilling hamburgers, the meat is placed directly over the coals instead of to the side of the coals to
increase the heat transfer by _______
3. The transfer of energy that does not require any matter is _____________.
4. How does energy from the sun travel to Earth?
5. The heat from a pot on the stove moves to the pot’s handle by __________.
6. Tanning lamps transfer thermal energy primarily by which of the above means?
7. As you sit across the room from a fireplace, you feel its warmth due to heat transferred by _________.
8. As wood is burned in a fireplace much of the thermal energy is lost to the outside environment through
the chimney. This transfer of heat is accomplished by which method?
9. Soaring birds, such as hawks, ride “updrafts” of warm air. These “updrafts” are examples of ________.
10. When you iron clothes they become hot because of _________.
11. Which of the following substances would heat not travel by convection through:
water, soup, air, concrete
12. All of the following are good conductors of heat except (there may be more than one answer):
a. Air
b. aluminum c. copper
d. silver
e. Styrofoam f. glass