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This temperature scale sets its zero point at the coldest possible temperature, where molecular motion essentially stops.
- Kelvin
- Rankine
- Fahrenheit
- Celsius
When you rub your hands together on a cold day, you convert mechanical energy into this form of energy.
- Heat
- Sound
- Light
- Chemical
Hot air rising from a radiator and cool air sinking toward the floor demonstrates this circular heat transfer pattern.
- Conduction
- Radiation
- Convection
- Diffusion
The Sun warms Earth across empty space using this heat transfer method that doesn't require any physical medium.
- Absorption
- Conduction
- Radiation
- Convection
Water boils at 100 degrees on this temperature scale, which was designed around the freezing and boiling points of water.
- Rankine
- Fahrenheit
- Celsius
- Kelvin
When ice melts into water at 0°C, the temperature stays constant because energy goes into changing this physical property.
- Pressure
- Volume
- Phase (or state)
- Density
Body temperature is 98.6 degrees on this scale primarily used in the United States for weather and cooking.
- Fahrenheit
- Celsius
- Kelvin
- Rankine
A metal spoon in hot soup feels hotter than a wooden spoon because metal has higher thermal...
- Expansion
- Conductivity
- Radiation
- Capacity
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