Heat

Question 1

Can heat energy travel?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

What is temperature?

Answer 2

How hot or cold something is

Question 3

How is temperature measured?

Answer 3

With a thermometer

Question 4

When does water freeze and boil?

Answer 4

0 degrees C + 100 degrees C

Question 5

Does heat travel from low to high or high to low?

Answer 5

High to low

Question 6

How does heat travel from particle to particle

Answer 6

By vibrators

Question 7

Is conduction in liquids, gases or solids?

Answer 7

Solids

Question 8

Is metal a good or bad conductor?

Answer 8

Good

Question 9

What is a bad conductor called?

Answer 9

Insulator

Question 10

Why is air a good insulator?

Answer 10

It’s made of gas

Question 11

When does convection happen?

Answer 11

When hot particles go up and cold ones go down

Question 12

What does convection work well with?

Answer 12

Liquids and gases

Question 13

What does convection not work well with?

Answer 13

Solids

Question 14

Why does convection not work well with solids?

Answer 14

Because it needs to move

Question 15

What is an example of something which uses convection?

Answer 15

A hot air balloon

Question 16

Heat travels as a wave of radiation, what is it called?

Answer 16

Infrared radiation

Question 17

True or False, Infrared radiation cannot travel in solids, gases and vacuum.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

How does heat travel here using infrared radiation?

Answer 18

From us, to sun, through vacuum.

Question 19

Which colours absorbs more light, dark or light?

Answer 19

Dark

Question 20

Where is heat escaping through houses?

Answer 20

Roof, walls, floors, windows, doors

Question 21

How is heat lost

Answer 21

Conduction, convection, radiation

Question 22

How can we prevent heat loss?

Answer 22

Double glazed windows, carpeted floors, drought excluders, wall + loft insulation, curtains over windows, foil being radiators