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Heat Transfer
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5. Conduction is the transfer of heat between substances that are in direct contact with each other.
6. Why does the hand need an oven mitt in order to pick up the pot from the stove?
Because the pot is too hot to touch.
7. List four good conductors and four poor conductors:
Good
Poor
1. Copper
1. Wood
2. Silver
2. Styrofoam
3. Iron
3. Paper
4. Steel
4. Air
8. Convection is the up and down movement of gases and liquids caused by heat transfer.
9. What happens to the air as the stove heats it?
It warms, expands, and rises because its less dense.
11. What happens to the air as it gets farther from the heat source?
It begins to cool and becomes denser and falls.
12. List four examples of convection:
1. Warmer water at the surface of a lake or swimming pool
2. Wind Currents
3. Hot air Balloon
4. Lower floors of a building being cooler than the top floor
13. When electromagnetic waves ravel through space it is called radiation.
14. What happens to the temperature of the house as the suns radiant energy touches it?
It gets hotter
15. List three examples of radiation:
1. A camp Fire
2. A microwave oven
3. A light bulb