CLASS 7 Chapter 5
Heat
1. In present day when there is widespread of corona virus all over our country , whenever you
go to any place first and foremost the temperature of a person is taken using a device
a) What is temperature?
b) What is used to take temperature of a person?
2. A small boy placed a glass tumbler full of hot milk on a table and goes out to play. When he
comes back after some time and touches the milk, he finds that the milk had cooled down.
State the reason for cooling down of the milk.
3. When your mother boils water in a container covered by a lid. You see that water starts
boiling after some time and the lid of the container rises up and falls down, again and again.
What does this observation suggest?
4. How is heat and temperature related to each other?
5. In order to open air tight glass jam bottle we dip the lid portion in hot water for some time.
State what helps us to open the lid?
6. Complete the given statements
a) Heat is transferred from one body to another due to existence of _____________
between them.
b) _____________ is just an indicator of heat energy in a body.
c) Removal or addition of heat to or from a body can also bring about a
________________.
d) Many _______________ take place when the reactants are heated up.
e) Two commonly used scales for measuring temperature are__________ and_________.
f) The _______________ has slight bend or kink in its capillary tube.
g) ____________ is the most significant method of transfer of energy in solids.
h) _____________and __________ are bad or poor conductors of heat.
i) Convection currents also have significant effect on ___________ and ___________.
j) Houses generally have light colours on their outer walls as they ____________
and____________ less heat.
7. Define the following terms
a) Conduction
b) Convection
c) Radiation
d) Thermal expansion
e) Least count.
8. Correct the given statements
a) Heat is an indicator of the degree of hotness or coldness of an object.
b) Radiation is mode of transfer of heat that requires solid medium.
c) Sea breeze is breeze that flows from land surface to sea surface during night.
d) A laboratory temperature is used to find the temperature of human body.
e) The bottom of cooking vessel is kept white to enable them to absorb heat of flame.
9. Complete the given flowcharts
Effects of Heat
Chemical change
10. Give reasons for the following
a) The metal rim of cart wheel has smaller diameter with wheel.
b) The length of mercury thread in the capillary tube of thermometer depends on the
extent of heating of thermometer.
c) The clinical thermometer has a constriction in its capillary tube.
d) We are able to feel the heat on the other end of a copper rod if one end of the rod is
heated.
e) We prefer white or light coloured clothes in summer.
11. Multiple choice questions
A. The water boils at_________ temperature.
a) 1000C b) 950C c) 00C d) 600C
B. The mode of transfer of heat that does not require any medium
a) Conduction b) Convection c) Radiation d) None of the above
C. Fire brigade men often use shinning brass caps because
a) Caps absorb very little heat b) Caps conduct heat c) caps radiate heat
d) none
D. The transfer of energy takes place from__________.
a) Higher to lower temperature b) Lower to higher temperature c) same
temperature d) none of the above
12. What are the conditions required for transfer of heat energy?
13. Name two solids that contract on heating.
14. Why do water pipes sometimes burst at very cold places?
15. What helps the aquatic animals to survive in the area where the temperature of the
surrounding goes below zero degree?
16. How is a clinical thermometer different from a laboratory thermometer?
17. Name the three different methods of transfer of heat.
18. Give 2 examples each of good conductors and bad conductors of heat.
19. We put both good conductors and bad conductors to many use in our daily life, explain this
with suitable example.
20. Write a simple activity to show that transfer of heat in fluids takes place by convection.
21. What causes the global wind patterns on this earth?
22. We all know that water heats slowly as compared to land during daytime, what happens
because of this and how?
23. State the properties of the thermos flask that helps to carry cold and hot water in it.
24. The bottom of the cooking utensils is often kept black, why?
25. Differentiate the following
a) Conduction and convection
b) Land breeze and Sea breeze
c) Conduction and radiation
26. How does the heat of Sun that is so far away reach us?
27. Greater is the difference in the pressure faster the air move in, explain.
28. What determines the intensity of a cyclone?
29. What causes the formation of monsoon winds?
30. Why the tea and coffee pots are generally made shinning bright?
