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5. Conduction is the transfer of heat between two objects in contact with one another.
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 pot
doesnt travel into the skin and burn the hand.
7. List four good conductors and four poor conductors:
Good
Poor
1. Steel
1. Insulation
2. Wood
3. Copper
3. Plastic
4. Brass
4. Ebonite
8. Convection is the up and down movement of hot and cold air caused by heat transfer.
9. What happens to the air as the stove heats it?
It rises
11. What happens to the air as it gets farther from the heat source?
It contracts and sinks back down
12. List four examples of convection:
1. warmer water at the surface of a lake or pool
2. wind currents
3. hot air balloons
4. lower floors being cooler than the top
13. When heat wave travel through space it is called radiation.
14. What happens to the temperature of the house as the suns radiant energy touches it?
It increases
15. List three examples of radiation:
1. suns rays hitting earth
2. microwave oven using waves to heat flood
3. thermal radiation caused by nuclear fission