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5. Conduction is the transfer of heat between solids.
6. Why does the hand need an oven mitt in order to pick up the pot from the stove? The oven mitt absorbs all the
heat
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 air and liquid caused by heat transfer.
9. What happens to the air as the stove heats it?
It gets hotter
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 swimming pool
2. Wind currents
3. Hot air balloon
4. Lower floors of a building being cooler than the upper floors.
13. When heat travel through space it is called radiation.
14. What happens to the temperature of the house as the suns radiant energy touches it?
It heats up
15. List three examples of radiation:
1. A camp fire
2. A microwave
3. A lightbulb