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Grades 11 and 12 - Physics - Senior High School - Conduction and Convection
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Grades 11 and 12 - Physics - Senior High School - Conduction and Convection
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10 Questions

1. Why are metals good heat conductors?
2. Houses built with thick stone walls usually stay cooler inside during the summer than houses built with thinner brick walls. Why might this be?
3. How does extra heat affect the particles of a metal?
4. What is the main way that heat passes through a brick in the wall of a building?
5. Thunderstorms are created by which form(s) of energy transfer in the atmosphere?
6. 'Particles with more energy move in to take the place of particles with less energy'
What method of heat transfer is being described in the previous sentence?
7. Which state(s) of matter is (or are) fluids?
8. On a sunny day, why is it slightly harder to swim back to the shore of a lake than to swim towards the center?
9. Why do hot air ballons rise?
10. In what substances can convection occur?