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Module 45

Science and Health

HOW HEAT TRAVELS?

A DepEd-BEAM Distance Learning Program supported by the Australian Agency for International Development
 To the Learner

You have learned in your past lesson that heat is a form

of energy and it is very important in our life. Heat keeps us
warm, it cooks our food, and does a lot of other things.
Heat travels through different phases of materials. It
travels through a solid, a liquid and a gas. Heat from a hot
object can transfer to a cold object. How does the transfer of
heat happen? You will find out the answer to this question as
you go through this module.

Let’s Learn This

Show evidence that heat travels by conduction and convection.

Infer that heat travels by radiation.

Let’s Try This

Study the illustrations. Identify how heat travels. Is it

through conduction, convection, or radiation? Write your
answer on the answer sheet.

1. 2.

3. 4.

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 5.

Let’s Study This

Heat travels through solid, liquid, and gas. It transfers from a

hot to a cold object. This transfer may occur in three ways.

Heat Travels By Conduction

Heat can travel through solids by conduction. Conduction is

the transfer of heat through direct contact.

The illustration above shows conduction. The heat from the

lighted candle travels to the spoon (cold object) by direct contact
causing the spoon to become hot.

Another example of conduction is shown below.

The heat from hot water travels to the ladle by direct contact.

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 The water and the ladle are composed of small particles called
molecules. Heat makes the molecules in the object move faster.
The fast movements of the water molecules make the cooler ladle
molecules move fast, too. As the fast moving particles collide with
the slow moving particles, energy is transferred. As a result, more
molecules move fast. This movement of water molecules continue
until heat is spread uniformly throughout the materials.

Materials that transfer heat easily are called conductors.

ILLUSTRATION SHOWING CONDUCTION

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Heat Travels By Convection

The illustration below shows convection.

The air surrounding the candle is warm while the air

surrounding the ice cubes is cold.
As air is heated by the lighted candle, the air particles acquire
energy and move faster and farther apart from one another. Warm
air becomes light. It rises because gravity cannot pull it.
Cold air is heavy because the air particles are close to one
another. Cold air sinks because gravity cannot pull it.
Cold air sinks and pushes the warm air upwards. This process
is known as convection.
Convection is the transfer of heat by the movement of the
heated parts of a liquid or gas.

Heat Travels By Radiation

When you stand before a bonfire or a stove you feel warm.

The heat from the bonfire traveled in waves through space to your
body. Your body absorbs the heat so it will become warm. This
method of heat transfer is called radiation.
Radiation is the transfer of heat through space.

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 ILLUSTRATION SHOWING CONVECTION

The pot in the picture is sitting on a discrete heat source, so

we could expect the current flow to be somewhat like the arrow
shown in the heating water.

Heat leaves the coffee cup as the current of steam and air rise.

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ILLUSTRATION SHOWING RADIATION

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 Let’s Do This

Write the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.

1. What energy transfer is shown through direct contact of the

heat source and the body receiving the heat?

a. conduction b. convention c. radiation d. heat

2. Which of these activities show heat transfer by radiation?

a. boiling egg c. refrigeration

b. heating the wire d. lighting the room with a
bulb

3. When one uses an exhaust fan, what kind of heat transfer is

demonstrated?

a. conduction b. convection c. radiation d.

nuclear

4. Which of the illustration show heat transfer?

a. b. c. d.

5. Which of the following DOES NOT show transfer of heat

energy?

a. lighting a room with a fluorescent lamp

b. placing a spoon in a cup of hot coffee
c. boiling water in a kettle
d. cutting paper in small pieces

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 Let’s Do More

A. Solve the puzzle. Use the clues below.

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4
2

3 5

Down Across

1 Heat can be transferred through 2 Heat transfer through direct

contact by the heat contact
source and the body receiving
the heat. 3 Materials that transfer heat easily

2 Heat transfer by the movement 6 A form of energy that keeps us

of heated parts of liquid or gas. warm

4 Heat is a form of 8 Heat can travel through in

conduction
5 Heat transfer through space
9 The greatest source of heat
7 Heat transfer from a hot to a
object.
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B. Identify how heat travels in each illustration.

1.

2. 3.

4. 5.

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 Let’s Remember This

• Heat travels through solid, liquid and gas.

• Heat transfer from a hot to a cold body.
• Heat can be transferred by conduction, convection
and radiation.
• Conduction is the heat transfer through direct
contact.
• Convection is the heat transfer by the movement of
heated parts of a liquid or gas.
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Let’s Test Ourselves

Identify what heat energy transfer is described. Choose your

answer from the words listed in the box. Write them on your answer
sheet.

conduction convection Radiation

1. boiling of mongo beans in a pan

2. warming of nail over the lighted candle

3. drying of clothes under the heat of the sun

4. campfire

5. heating the iron

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 Science Fact File

Heat is given off whenever energy is being used. The

more heat energy an object has, the faster its molecules
move. You can’t see heat energy, but you can detect evidence
of heat transfer. If you need evidence of thermal energy or
heat in your life, just feel your arm. Your body generates heat
24 hours a day!

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 Answer Key

Let’s Try This

1. conduction
2. radiation
3. convection
4. conduction
5. radiation

Let’s Do This
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Let’s Do More

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B. 1. radiation
2. convection
3. conduction
4. radiation
5. conduction

Let’s Test Ourselves

1. convection
2. conduction
3. radiation
4. radiation
5. conduction

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