Heat Transfer: Conduction, Radiation, & Convection

Master heat transfer! Learn conduction, convection, and radiation with fun science worksheet exercises.

Label It! Click on each box and fill in the blank with the type of heat transfer.Word bank: conduction, convection, and radiation. conduction convection radiation Heat transfers from a _ object to a _ object. warmer, cooler cooler, warmer cooler, cooler Heat is a measure of thermal _. energy waves radiation Heat travels by conduction when objects are far apart. circulating. in contact with one another. As temperature increases, the molecules that make up a substance slow down. stay the same. speed up. In this image, heat is traveling by conduction. convection. radiation. When objects of different temperatures are directlytouching, heat will move from one object to the other by conduction. convection. radiation. A microwave oven works by _ (electromagnetic waves) so that the food is heated from the inside to the outside. conduction convection radiation The pot becomes hot due to the transfer of heat by _. conduction convection radiation Sort it Out! Classify each example of heat transfer. There will be 3 examples in each category. Conduction a spoon gets hot while stirring a cup of hot tea you burn your finger when you touch a stove burner picking up a hot cup of coffee Convection hot air rises, cooler air sinks water boiling on a stove circulates in a pot weather Radiation microwave a person placing their hand over a hot burner lying out in the sun to get a tan