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Conductivity of heat: some materials let
heat flow through. St udy
• A thermal conductor lets heat travel
through it and is used when heat
needs transporting to another place. Key Point
Metals are good conductors of heat.
Heat always travels
A metal saucepan conducts heat to
from warmer
the food inside it. A metal radiator
materials to colder
conducts heat from the hot water
materials as it tries
inside it to the air on the outside.
to balance each
• Heat cannot pass through a thermal
material at the
insulator, which is used for keeping
same temperature.
heat in or out. Wood is not a good
Heat from inside a
conductor of heat, and so a wooden
radiator will travel
spoon insulates against heat when
through the metal
stirring hot liquids. Many fabrics are
to the cooler air
good insulators and help prevent heat
outside the radiator.
from our body being lost on a cold day.
Quick Test
Key Words
1. Why is diamond sometimes used for tool blades?
2. Why should you avoid touching electrical items with • Soluble
wet hands? • Insoluble
3. Match each material to a use and explain your choice. • Transparent
glass wood copper foam • Opaque
• Conductor
car seat pan handle greenhouse electrical wire • Insulator
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Properties and Changes of Materials
Practice Question s
Challenge 1
2 What process could be used to separate two solids such as stones and soil?
1 mark
Challenge 2
1 What happens to iron if it is exposed to oxygen and moisture for too long?
1 mark
1 mark
Challenge 3
WS 1 On a class trip, the children collect some samples of water from a river. They
can see that the water is not clean because it has lots of small particles in it.
They used the equipment shown below. Explain the method of their enquiry.
filter
3 marks
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Properties and Changes of Materials
Re vie w Question s
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