DIRECTIONS:  Use the first two web sites for research, and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper. (Double click on a link to go to a site.  When you want to return to this page, click on the "Back" icon.)
Then choose one of the situations from the third link and follow the directions in the box to the right of the situation.

http://citnts.fsec.ucf.edu/solar-curriculum/main.htm(What is Solar Energy?)
http://step.k12.ca.us/profneutron/heat.html  (Professor Neutron)
http://www.lincoln.smmusd.org/staff/burdettet_web/heattransferdiagrams.html

1.     What is temperature, and what does it have to do with heat?
2.    What are the different scales used to measure heat energy?
3.    What is radiation, and how does it work?
4.    What is conduction, and how does it work?
5.    What is convection, and how does it work?
6.    What do calories have to do with heat?
7.    What happens at absolute zero?
8.    What are insulators?  Give an example of an insulator.
9.    What are conductors?  Give an example of a conductor.
10.   Explain the following terms:
        absorption
        glazing
        reflection
11.    List and describe the factors that cause sunlight intensity to vary in
        different places around the world.