6D

Question 1

The hot sun warms a large rock. A lizard comes along and warms up by laying on the hot rock.

1.) What type of heat
transfer is warming
up the rock?

2.) What type of heat
transfer is warming
up the lizard?

Answer 1

1.) The rock is warming up by radiation because the sun is warming the rock from a distance.

2.) The lizard is warming up by conduction because the lizard is touching the hot rock.