Quiz Name:  Heat and Temperature 
Type: Question and Answer 
Instructions: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Check your answers by clicking on “answer key” below the last question.

Question 1: What is a measure of the average kinetic energy of molecules?


Question 2: What unit is used to measure temperature?


Question 3: What is the total kinetic energy of molecules called?


Question 4: Two units for heat are the calorie and this.


Question 5: This is equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius.


Question 6: How many joules are in one calorie?


Question 7: A kilocalorie is equal to how many calories?


Question 8: The amount of heat depends on temperature and this.


Question 9: Heat is a form of this.


Question 10: This is the absence of heat.


Question 11: What is the coldest possible temperature called?


Question 12: What temperature scale has the boiling point of water set at 212 degrees?


Question 13: What temperature scale has the boiling point of water set at 100 degrees?


Question 14: What do you add to a Celsius reading to change it to a Kelvin reading?


Question 15: What temperature scale uses Fahrenheit sized degrees but sets zero at absolute zero?


Question 16: What is the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of any substance one degree Celsius called?


Question 17: When substances are heated they can change state or experience this.


Question 18: No matter what type of this substance you have they all expand and contract at the same rate.


Question 19: The coefficient of _____ expansion explains how materials expand when they are heated.


Question 20: The coefficient of _____ expansion shows how the length of materials change when they are heated.


Question 21: This type of glass would be less likely to crack when heated.


Question 22: This material is one of the few on earth that expands when it goes from a liquid to a solid.


Question 23: Water has its greatest density at __ C.


Question 24: The heat of ____ is the heat absorbed in the melting process.


Question 25: The heat of ____ is the amount of heat needed to change a liquid to a gas.


Question 26: This is the transfer of heat from molecule to molecule.


Question 27: This occurs when heat is transferred by moving currents.


Question 28: This is how heat gets to us from the sun.


Question 29: This affect is when long-waved radiation is trapped by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.


Question 30: The heat of fusion for water is ____ cal/g.

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