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Heat Transfer
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5. Conduction is the transfer of heat between copper, silver, iron and steel
6. Why does the hand need an oven mitt in order to pick up the pot from the stove? So that the
heat from the stove will not burn it.
7. List four good conductors and four poor conductors:
Good
Copper
Silver
Iron
Steel
Poor
Wood
Paper
Air
Styrofoam
8. Convection is the up and down movement of hot air and cool air caused by heat transfer.
9. What happens to the air as the stove heats it? It becomes heated, expands, and rises then
contracts and sinks
11. What happens to the air as it gets farther from the heat source? It becomes colder
12. List four examples of convection:
1. Wamer water at the surface of the lake or swimming pool
2. Wind Currents
3. Hot air balloon
4. Lower floor of a building being cooler than the top floor
13. When thermal energy travel 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. Campfire
2. Lightbulb
3. Microwave