Conduction, Convection, Radiation

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What is a example of Radiation?

ultraviolet light

What is an example of Convection?

A hot air balloon floating because the heat is heating up the air making it float.

What is an example of Conduction?

A stove heating up a pan.

What is an example of convection? 3

Boiling water

Radiation

Energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles.

How does convection occur in Earth's mantle?

Heat from the core and the mantle itself causes convection currents in the mantle.

What causes conduction?

Heat transferring by particles of the substance colliding.

What is another example of convection?

Hot Air rising

What is another example of Conduction?

Ice cooling your hand

How does radiation kill cancer?

It kills cancer by destroying the cancer's DNA

What occurs during convection?

Particles with a lot of heat energy in gases of liquid move and take the place of the articles with less energy.

What is a way Radiation is also used?

Radiation Therapy

What can radiation give you?

Skin cancer

Conduction

The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that it is touching.

What is another example of radiation?

The sun heating up your face

Convection

The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid

How is radiation, conduction, and convection similar?

They are all sources of heat transfer.

What is radiation used for today?

To cure cancer

What is and example of convection? 4

ice melting

What is not a example of radiation?

ice melting


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