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Directions: Identify and describe one type of heat transfer taking place in each picture.

1. Convection: When the lid is on, warm air rises from the coals, cools
a bit hear the top and falls. This circular flow is convection.
Conduction: The meat’s temperature rises because of its direct
contact with the hot metal grate.
Radiation: If you hold your hands closer to the grill, you will feel a
higher temperature, even though you are not touching it and the
air is not flowing in a convection current.

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2. Convection: The air over the hot sand is hotter than the air over
the water because warmer air rises.
Conduction: Objects on the ground have heat transferred to them
from the hot sand by direct contact.
Radiation: Energy from the sun heats the sand even though there
is no direct contact or medium through which the energy is
traveling.

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Answer the questions below by checking the correct answer.

3. Higher temperature means faster moving 5. When a cold metal spoon is placed into a hot
molecules. cup of water the spoon will heat up. This is an
example of:
□ true
□ Radiation
□ false
□ Conduction
4. The sun directly heats the air in our
□ Convection
atmosphere.
□ true 6. Circular currents in boiling water are due to:
□ false □ Radiation
□ Conduction
□ Convection

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