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5. Conduction is the transfer of heat between _one object to another
6. Why does the hand need an oven mitt in order to pick up the pot from the stove? ___the heat is too great
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 cold air and hot air caused by heat transfer.
9. What happens to the air as the stove heats it? It cools and heats up and circles
11. What happens to the air as it gets farther from the heat source? It gets cooler
12. List four examples of convection:
1. Warmer water at the surface of a lake or pool.
2. Wind currents
3. Hot air balloon
4. Lower floors of a building being cooler than the top floor
13. When sun light/sun rays travel through space it is called radiation.
14. What happens to the temperature of the house as the suns radiant energy touches it?
It rises in temperature
15. List three examples of radiation:
1. A camp fire
2. A microwave oven
3. A light bulb