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Thermal insulators

The starter and exit quiz of the lesson “Thermal insulators”, from the unit “Heating and cooling” (Year 7 Science) by Oak National Academy.

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12 questions

  1. What might the temperature be on a hot day?
  2. What holds the particles in a solid in their fixed positions?
  3. Heating a solid causes its particles to ___ more vigorously.
  4. Heating a gas causes its particles to ___ more quickly.
  5. How do particles in a solid pass on vibrations to each other?
  6. How do faster moving particles in a gas make other particles in the gas move more quickly?
  7. As a hot object cools down, it ___ its surroundings.
  8. What do you call a material that is an extremely poor thermal conductor?
  9. How many variables do you change during a fair test experiment?
  10. When carrying out a fair test to compare different insulation materials wrapped around a hot drink, which of these are control variables?
  11. Why is a woolly scarf a good insulator?
  12. On a hot day, a wrapped ice lolly is covered with a woolly scarf. What will the effect of this be on the ice lolly, compared to one that is not covered?

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