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Physical Science Chapter 3 Quiz
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1Pretend we have a large explosive and, in a very safe and responsible way, we blow up a forest with it. Afterwards is there ______ energy in the universe than before we started?
- AMore
- BLess
- Cthe same amount of
2For centuries scientists thought that heat was some kind of weightless gas called [blank_start]caloric[blank_end].
- Acaloric
3After we burn coal, it isn't coal anymore. Before the energy was the chemical energy contained in the chemical bonds of the coal, but after we burn it those are gone. What happened to that energy?
- AIt was mostly converted into light and heat and sound
- BIt disappeared
- CIt was all converted into mass
- DThe energy didn't go anywhere. It's all still in the coal ash
4In some nuclear reactions, what's left over at the end has less mass than what we started with.
- ATrue
- BFalse
5Energy cannot be converted into mass.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6When two objects are at the same temperature and there is no heat transfer: [blank_start]Thermal Equilibrium[blank_end]
Heat transfer across outer space: [blank_start]radiation[blank_end]
Heat transfer through solids: [blank_start]conduction[blank_end]
Heat transfer through liquids or gases: [blank_start]convection[blank_end]- AThermal Equilibrium
- Bradiation
- Cconduction
- Dconvection
- Eradiation
- FThermal Equilibrium
- Gconduction
- Hconvection
- Iconduction
- JThermal Equilibrium
- Kradiation
- Lconvection
- Mconvection
- Nconduction
- Oradiation
- PThermal Equilibrium
7The "[blank_start]internal energy[blank_end]" of a substance is the sum of all the kinetic energies of the individual particles in the substance.
- Ainternal energy
8When we say "[blank_start]fluid[blank_end]" we can be referring to either a gas or a liquid.
- Afluid
9When you sit on the heater vent in your house, what kind of heat transfer is warming you up the most?
- Aconvection
- Bconduction
- Cradiation
10No work is done on a bucket when you carry it horizontally across the front yard.
- ATrue
- BFalse
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- Physical Science Quiz on Physical Science Chapter 3 Quiz, created by Erich Kassner on 17/05/2017.
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