Let’s see how much you’ve picked up with these experiments and the reading – answer as best as you can. (No peeking at the answers until you’re done!) Just relax and see what jumps to mind when you read the question. You can also print these out and jot down your answers in your science notebook.


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1. What is heat?


2. Does heat flow from higher to lower temperature, from lower to higher temperature or does it matter?


3. When I first turn on the shower the shower curtain keeps blowing into my legs. Is this an example of conduction, convection or radiation?


4. When I bite into a pizza, the heat is transferred painfully to the roof of my mouth. Is this an example of convection, conduction or radiation?


5. Someone sits a little too close to me on a bus and I can feel the heat coming off of them. Is this an example of convection, conduction or radiation?


6. My daughter holds my hand as we walk across the street. I can feel heat coming from her hand to mine. Is this an example of convection, conduction or radiation?


7. It’s a hot sunny day outside. Am I better off wearing a dark shirt or a light shirt if I want to stay cool?


8. An object’s temperature always drops when it loses heat. True or false?


9. What happens to molecules as they change from one state to another?


10. When objects evaporate do they absorb heat or release heat?


11. Why do we sweat when we’re hot?


12. Why doesn’t temperature change when things are changing state?


13. What is heat capacity?


14. Which would cool down faster, a bottle of maple syrup or a teaspoon of maple syrup?


15. Owww!! I just burned my mouth on a piece of pizza! The strange thing is the crust is just warm. What happened?


16. When I eat at a fast food restaurant I always eat my fries before the burger since the fries get cold so much faster. Which has a higher heat capacity, the fries or the burger?


17. Why do I fill a hot water bottle with hot water and not just hot air?


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