You are outside playing on a hot sunny day and are called into your home by

your parents. A stone fence surrounds your yard. As you enter the gate, you

touch the stones in the fence and notice how warm it is. You let your hand stay

on the rocks of the wall for a few minutes. When you remove your hand and

touch your face with it, you can feel the heat; the stones in the wall have warmed

your hand.

A) radiation

B) conduction

C) convection

Question

Ada Gomez

Biology

7 July, 06:32

You are outside playing on a hot sunny day and are called into your home by

your parents. A stone fence surrounds your yard. As you enter the gate, you

touch the stones in the fence and notice how warm it is. You let your hand stay

on the rocks of the wall for a few minutes. When you remove your hand and

touch your face with it, you can feel the heat; the stones in the wall have warmed

your hand.

A) radiation

B) conduction

C) convection

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Answers (2)

Know the Answer?

Laila Blankenship · Answer 1

Conduction: The process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature or of electrical potential between adjoining regions, without movement of the material.

So B

Rylie Suarez · Answer 2

Rylie Suarez 7 July, 06:47

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Correct answer is:

B) conduction