Thermal Energy
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8 questions
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What is thermal energy? (Don't google. Just give your best off-the-top-of-your-head response).
What is thermal energy? (Don't google. Just give your best off-the-top-of-your-head response).
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Quick recap #1: What's the difference between thermal energy and temperature?
Quick recap #1: What's the difference between thermal energy and temperature?
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Before We Continue #1: What are different ways heat is transferred from one object to another?
Before We Continue #1: What are different ways heat is transferred from one object to another?
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Quick recap #2: Give an example of, or draw a picture of, or copy in a picture of an example of conduction, that we haven't discussed yet.
Quick recap #2: Give an example of, or draw a picture of, or copy in a picture of an example of conduction, that we haven't discussed yet.
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Quick Recap #3: Give an example of, or draw a picture of, or copy in a picture of an example of radiation, that we haven't discussed yet.
Quick Recap #3: Give an example of, or draw a picture of, or copy in a picture of an example of radiation, that we haven't discussed yet.
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Quick Recap #4: Give an example of, or draw a picture of, or copy in a picture of an example of convection, that we haven't discussed yet.
Quick Recap #4: Give an example of, or draw a picture of, or copy in a picture of an example of convection, that we haven't discussed yet.
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Categorize each thing as either conduction, convection, or radiation
Categorize each thing as either conduction, convection, or radiation
- A pot on a hot burner
- The inside of a greenho
- Touching a hot pot
- Using a heating blanket
- Holding your hands near a fire
- Lying in the sun to tan
- Putting wet shoes over a vent to dry faster
- Picking up a hot cup of coffee
- Macaroni rising and falling in a pot of boiling water
- Heat given off by a lightbulb
- Ice cooling a bu
- Hot air balloons
- Radiators heating a house
- Burning feet on hot sand
- The sun warming up a house
- Conduction
- Convection
- Radiation
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After reading the article linked below, answer the following questions:1. What is thermal pollution?2. What are two causes of thermal pollution?3. What are two impacts of thermal pollution?
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-and-effects-of-thermal-pollution.php
After reading the article linked below, answer the following questions:
1. What is thermal pollution?
2. What are two causes of thermal pollution?
3. What are two impacts of thermal pollution?
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-and-effects-of-thermal-pollution.php