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Science
Quarter 3 - Module 7
Infer the Conditions
Necessary for Heat
Transfer to Occur
Science – Grade 7
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Quarter 3 – Module 7: Infer the Conditions Necessary for Heat Transfer to Occur
First Edition, 2021

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Science
Quarter 3 – Module 7
Infer the Conditions
Necessary for Heat
Transfer to Occur

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Introductory Message
This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners, can continue
your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions, directions, exercises, and
discussions are carefully stated for you to understand each lesson.
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If you have any questions in using this SLM or any difficulty in answering the tasks in this
module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator.

Thank you.

What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with in your mine. It is here to reinforce your
understanding of heat as an energy that transfers from one object or place to another. You will
determine the conditions necessary for heat to transfer and the direction by which heat transfers
by examining the change in the temperature of the objects involved. The scope of this module
permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the
diverse vocabulary level of the students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard lesson
of the course. But the order in which you read them can be change to respond with the textbook
you are now using.

After going through this module you are expected to:

➢ describe the three methods of heat transfer;
➢ distinguish the given situation on how heat is transferred;
➢ infer the necessary conditions to occur heat transfer ; and
➢ relate the concepts of heat transfer in real-life situations.

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 What I Know

Multiple Choices: Choose the best letter that you believe is correct. Write your answer in a
separate sheet of paper.

1. What is the MOST responsible for the uneven heating of the air in the atmosphere?
a. radiation c. conduction
b. convection d. condensation

2. A pot is heating on a stove as shown in

the diagram below. Which process that
causes hotness of the metal handle of the
pot?

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a. combustion b. radiation
c. convection d. conduction

3. To keep from burning a hand on a pot handle, which material should the handle be
made?
a. aluminum b. iron c. glass d. rubber

4. People who are sitting around a campfire are able to feel the heat from the fire. How are
the people able to feel the heat from the fire without touching the fire?
a. The heat from the fire travels through the ground and heats the ground around
the people.
b. The heat from the fire is conducted through air molecules to the people.
c. The heat from the fire radiates from the fire to the people.
d. The heat from the fire rises in the air and then settles around the people.

5. Molly stands in a swimming pool and notices that the water around her feet is a lot cooler
than the water near the surface. Which process causes this difference in temperature?
a. convection b. radiation c. evaporation d. conduction
6. As an object heats up, which would most likely occur?
a. Its volume increases. c. It changes weight.
b. It loses energy d. It changes color.

7. To keep from burning a hand on a handle, which material should the handle be made?
a. aluminum d. iron c. glass d. rubber
8. After cooking an egg in boiling water, you cool the egg by putting it into a bowl of cold
water. Which of the following explains the egg’s cooling process?
a. Temperature is transferred from the egg to the water.
b. Cold moves from the water into the egg.
c. Energy is transferred from the water to the egg.

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 d. Energy is transferred from the egg to the water.
9. You take a cold can of soda of a countertop. The countertop underneath the can feels
colder than the rest of the counter. Which of the following explains this occurrence?
a. The cold has been transferred from the soda to the counter.
b. There is no heat energy left in the counter beneath the can.
c. Some heat has been transferred from the counter to the soda.
d. The heat beneath the can moves away into other parts of the countertop.
10. Amy wraps her dolls in blankets but can’t understand on why they don’t warm up. Why
don’t they warm up?
a. The blankets are probably poor insulators.
b. The blankets are probably poor conductors.
c. The dolls are made of materials which don’t hold heat well.
d. None of the above.

What’s In

Hello! My dear learners! How is your day? I hope that everything is fine after our previous
activity. In your previous module you have learned about sound and light as forms of energy
that travel in waves.
This time, you will study about heat which is another form of energy that travels through
moving particles or through radiation.
Perform the activity below.

Activity 1
Walk under the sun for five minutes.
• Why do you feel warm when you walk under the sun?
• What do you think on the heat from the sun reaches the earth?

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 What’s New

In previous activity we have known the reason why we feel warm when walking under the sun
and how sun’s heat reaches our planet. Now, lets’ try the next activities below.

Activity 1
Perform the following activities with your parents’ supervision.
1. Prepare a candle, a small piece of cloth, spoon, and matches.
2. Light the candle. With a piece of cloth, hold a spoon over the flame for five minutes.
3. Observe on what happens to the handle of the spoon.

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Q1. What happen to the handle of the spoon?

Activity 2

Sit near a fire. Feel your face and arms. How do

you feel? How did the heat from the fire transfer
to you?

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 What Is It

What is heat?
Have you heard of the term “thermal energy” before? Any object is said to possess thermal
energy due to the movement of its particles. How is heat related to thermal energy? Like any
other forms of energy, thermal energy can be transformed into other forms or transferred to other
objects or places. Heat is a form of energy that refers to the thermal energy that is “in transit” or
in the process of being transferred. It stops to become heat when the transfer stops. The heat
transfers continue until the two objects have reached thermal equilibrium and are at the same
temperature. After the energy is transferred, say to another object, it may again become thermal
energy or may be transformed to other forms.
Heat transfer is the process of transfer of heat from high temperature system to a low
temperature system. Heat transfer is related to change in temperature or change in the relative
hotness or coldness of an object.
Mechanism of Heat Transfer
Conduction is a transfer of heat through direct contact. Molecules transfer energy to the
molecules next to them. The molecules don’t have to be the same substance. During this
process, only the energy moves, not the matter itself. Conduction generally occur on solids.

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 Example 2

Your coke becomes cold because the heat

from the soda transfers into the ice and not
the other way around.

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Here is another example of heat transfer by conduction. Think of a metal spoon put in a bowl of
a hot champorado that you were about to eat when you suddenly remembered that you had to
do first a very important task. When you came back, you noticed that the handle of the spoon
became really hot! How do you think this happened? The heat from the champorado is
transferred to the part of the spoon that is in direct contact with the food by conduction. Then it
is transferred to the cooler regions of the spoon through its particles. Why did you feel the spoon
hot? When you touched the spoon, heat is also transferred to your hand by conduction. So your
hand gained heat or thermal energy, and this makes you feel the object hot.
Heat Conductivities
Some objects conduct heat transfer than the others. This explains why we feel some objects
colder or warmer than the others even if they are of the same temperature.
The approximate values of thermal conductivity for some common materials are shown below:

MATERIAL CONDUCTIVITY MATERIAL CONDUCTIVITY

W(m.K) W(m.K)
Silver 429 Concrete 1.1
Copper 401 Water at 200 C 0.6
Gold 318 Rubber 0.16
Aluminum 237 Polypropylene plastic 0.25
Ice 2 Wood 0.04-0.4
Glass, ordinary 1.7 Air at 00 C 0.025

*Watt (W) is the unit of power where 1 watt is equal to 1 joule per second. 1 joule is equal to 0.24
calories.
Solids that conduct heat better are considered good conductors of heat while those which
conduct heat poorly are generally called insulators. Metals are mostly good conductors of heat.
Convection is the transfer of heat through the fluid (liquids and gases) movement of
currents. In this process, heat is transferred in the liquid and gases from a region of higher
temperature to a region of lower temperature. Convection heat transfer occurs partly due to the
actual movement of molecules or due to the mass transfer. Warm fluids rise, cool down, sink
and then warmed again.

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Example 1
The radiator warms the
room by warming the air
around it. Then the warm
air transfers heat to the rest
of the room
through convection.

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Example 2

As air above the road warms

up, it rises and is replaced by
cooler air, forming convection
current.

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Warm Weather and Bodies

of Water
Weather is largely affected by
convection, as air creates
breezes over land masses
located next to large bodies of
water like lakes or oceans.
Water has a higher heat
capacity than earth, so it holds
its heat better. That means it
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the air over the body of water will be a lower temperature than the air over land, creating
a low-pressure area over the land and a higher-pressure area over the water. This
movement of air molecules from one pressure system and temperature to the other
causes breezes to blow from water to land, altering the temperature. The opposite
scenario occurs at night when the sun goes down and the water cools off more slowly
than the land.

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* Convection Current is defined as “a process of continuous heating up of liquids or gases
by the process called as Convection. “

Some examples of convection

Heating Water on the Stove

When a pot of water is placed on a stove and the stove is turned on, the pan itself
becomes increasingly hotter due to conduction; that's where the metal of the pot is directly in
contact with the heating element. But the water inside the pot is heated due to convection. As
the water at the bottom of the pot (touching the increasingly hotter metal) rises, it transfers heat
to the water above it. The cold water is pushed downward towards the hot bottom of the pot due
to convection currents, and the process continues.

A Hot Air Balloon

Hot air balloons rise due to the propensity of warmer air to be less dense than the air
around it. A heat source at the bottom of the balloon heats the air molecules around the flame,
and those molecules rise. Warmer air is less dense than cold air, so as the warm air rises the
molecules spread out. The cold air is pushed downward, where it is also heated. The swirling
movement of the warmer air as it rises continues to increase the temperature of the air around
it.

The Earth's Convection

The Earth's mantle moves very slowly due to the convection currents beneath the
surface. These currents transfer heat from the Earth's hot core, sending them up to the surface.
The swirling currents cause the tectonic plates to move very gradually around the planet's
surface. At the same time, new hot matter adheres to the growing edges of the plates, and then
it cools. The material becomes denser when the heat causes it to contract and sink back into the
mantle at an ocean trench, causing the formation of a volcano.

Radiation is the process in which heat is transferred from one body to another body
without involving the molecules of the medium. Radiation heat transfer does not depend on the
medium.
All life on Earth depends on the transfer of energy from the Sun, and this energy is transferred
to the Earth over empty space. This form of energy transfer is the radiation of heat.

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Some examples of heat transfer by radiation

• Heat from a light bulb
• Heat from a fire
• Heat from anything else which is warmer than its surroundings.

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 What’s More

Directions: Identify the types of heat transfer as shown in the picture. Write the word
Conduction, Convection or Radiation in your answer sheet.

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 http://karibunicollies.com/worksheet/radiation-conduction-convection-worksheet.html

What I Have Learned

A. Directions : Fill in the blank with the correct term that is being described. Write your
answer in a separate sheet of paper.
1. The hotness of an object is determined by its ____________
2. A cold steel spoon is dipped in a cup of hot milk. It transfers heat to its other end by
the process of ___________
3. It is a form of energy that refers to the thermal energy that is “in
transit”._______________
4. Is the process of transfer of heat from high temperature system to a low temperature
system
5. Poor conductors are known as ___________

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 B. Answer the following questions below:

1. Does transfer of heat by radiation require any medium?

2. How does heat transfer in liquids and gases?
3. Will heat transfer if the temperature of two objects are the same?
4. How does heat transfer in solids?
5. What are conductors of heat?

What I Can Do

Heat transfer is evident everywhere around us. Look at the illustration below. This
illustration depicts several situations that involve heat transfer. Your task is to identify examples
of situations found in the illustration that involve the different methods of heat transfer. Copy the
table . and write your answer in the table.

What is the
Description Which object Which object method of heat
gives off heat? receives heat? transfer

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 Assessment

Multiple Choices: Choose the letter of the best answer. Use a separate sheet of paper.

1. What is the MOST responsible for the uneven heating of the air in the atmosphere?
a. radiation c. conduction
b. convection d. condensation

2. A pot is heating on a stove as shown in the diagram below. Which process that causes
the hotness of the pot’s metal handle?

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VBXhNfE4fBbAebrmfng6M6-1200-80.jpg
a. combustion b. radiation c. convection d. conduction

3. To keep from burning a hand on a pot handle which material should the handle be made?
a. aluminum b. iron c. glass d. rubber

4. People who are sitting around a campfire are able to feel the heat from the fire. How are
the people able to feel the heat from the fire without touching the fire?
a. The heat from the fire travels through the ground and heats the ground around
the people.
b. The heat from the fire is conducted through air molecules to the people.
c. The heat from the fire radiates from the fire to the people.
d. The heat from the fire rises in the air and then settles around the people.

5. Molly stands in a swimming pool and notices that the water around her feet is a lot cooler
than the water near the surface. Which process causes this difference in temperature?
a. convection b. radiation c. evaporation d. conduction
6. As an object heats up, which would most likely occur?
a. Its volume increases. c. It changes weight.
b. It loses energy d. It changes color.

7. To keep from burning a hand on a handle, of which material should the handle be made?
a. aluminum d. iron c. glass d. rubber
8. After cooking an egg in boiling water, you cool the egg by putting it into a bowl of cold
water. Which of the following explains the egg’s cooling process?
a. Temperature is transferred from the egg to the water.
b. Cold moves from the water into the egg.
c. Energy is transferred from the water to the egg.
d. Energy is transferred from the egg to the water.

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9. You take a cold can of soda off of a countertop. The countertop underneath the can feels
colder than the rest of the counter. Which of the following explains this occurrence?
a. The cold has been transferred from the soda to the counter.
b. There is no heat energy left in the counter beneath the can.
c. Some heat has been transferred from the counter to the soda.
d. The heat beneath the can moves away into other parts of the countertop.
10. Amy wraps her dolls in blankets but can’t understand why they don’t warm up. Why don’t
they warm up?
a. The blankets are probably poor insulators.
b. The blankets are probably poor conductors.
c. The dolls are made of materials which don’t hold heat well.
d. None of the above.

For items 11-15 refer at the illustration below

11. How does heat travel through the pan?

a. by radiation c. by convection
b. by dispersion d. by conduction
12. How does heat travel through the soup?
a. by radiation c. by convection
b. by conduction d. by dispersion
13. In what direction does heat travel through the
soup?
a. from top to bottom c. both A and B
b. from bottom to top d. neither A nor B
14. Which of the following explains on why the
lady is able to hold the handle of the pan with her
bare hands?
I. The handle is made of good insulator of
heat.
II. The handle has low thermal conductivity.
III. The handle has high thermal expansion.

a. I and II only c. II and III only

b. I and III only d. I, II, and III
15. Which of the following methods of heat transfer is NOT taking place in the given
situation?
a. conduction c. radiation
b. convection d. none of the above

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 Additional Activities

Below is a diagram showing the basic parts of the thermos bottle. Identify the parts being
illustrated. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

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 Answer Key

ASSESSMENT WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

A.
1.B 6.A 11.D 1.temperature
2.D 7.B 12.B 2.conduction
3.D 8.D 13.B 3.heat
4.C 9.C 14.A 4 heat transfer
5.A 10.D 15.D 5.insulators
B.
1.The transfer of heat by radiation does not require any medium.
2.In liquid and gases the heat is transferred by convection.
3.Heat will not transfer if the temperature of two objects are the same.
4.Generally in solids heat is transferred through conduction.
5.The materials which allow heat to pass through them easily are conductors of
heat.

WHAT’S MORE WHAT’S NEW WHAT’S IN WHAT I KNOW

1. Convection ACTIVITY 1 & 2 ACTIVITY 1 1.B 6.A

2. Conduction 2.D 7.B
3. Conduction Answers may vary Answers may vary 3.D 8.D
4. Radiation 4.C 9.C
5. Convection 5.A 10.D
6. Radiation
7. Conduction
8. Convection
9. Convection
10. Radiation

WHAT I CAN DO

Description Which object gives heat? Which object receives What is the method
heat? of heat transfer?
boiling fish flame fish conduction/
convection
melting ice sun Ice cream radiation
cream
steam coming boiling water Air above convection
out of the
kettle (with
boiling water)

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ADDITIONAL

ACTIVITY

References
Book/s
Science 7 Learner’s Material
Science 7 Teacher’s Guide

Online Sources

Physicsclassroom.com/class/thermal/Lesson-1/Methods-of-Heat Transfer
Slideshare.net/heat-transfer-presentation
Physics.stackexchange.com/example-of-situation-with-conduction-convection-and-radiation
educationwithfun.com

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