A Trivia Quiz On Temperature And Thermal Energy?

Blow on your hand with your open mouth and you feel the warmth of your breath. Pucker your lips so your breath expands as you blow and your breath is

• Warmer still

• Cooler

• Neither warmer nor cooler

The first law of thermodynamics is a restatement of the

• Principle of entropy

• Law of heat addition

• Carnot cycle

• Conservation of energy

• None of these

A quantity of water has more entropy when it is 

• Frozen ice

• Boiling

• At room temperature

To wholly convert a given amount of heat energy into mechanical energy is

• Possible using a steam engine

• Possible using an atomic reactor

• Possible using a simple machine

• Impossible regardless of the technique used

Entropy measures

• Temperature at constant pressure

• Temperature at constant volume

• Temperature as pressure increases

• Temperature as volume increases

• Messiness

To totally convert a given amount of mechanical energy into heat is

• Possible

• Impossible

• Impossible to answer without additional information

A volume of air has a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. An equal volume of air that is twice as hot has a temperature of

• 0 degrees C

• 64 degrees C

• 100 degrees C

• None of the above choices are correct

A temperature inversion occurs when the upper layers of air are

• Warmer than the lower regions of air

• Cooler than the lower regions of air

• At the same temperature as lower regions of air

Industrialization on Earth eventually heats our surroundings to temperatures that are higher than usual. Industrialization in space habitats using exclusively solar power eventually will thermally pollute the solar 

• True

• False

• Cannot be determined without additional information

Chinook winds tend to

• Warm an environment

• Cool an environment

• Cool deserts at night

• Warm deserts at sunrise

Entropy is closely related to the

• 1st law of thermodynamics

• 2nd law of thermodynamics

• Both of these

• Neither of these

The earth's atmosphere gets most of its heat

• Near the surface of the Earth

• At high altitudes closer to the sun

• From the Earth's core

Adiabatic processes occur 

• Only in the atmosphere

• Only in the oceans

• Only in the earth's mantle

• In both the atmosphere and the oceans

• In the atmosphere, oceans and the earth's mantle

A process which takes place at constant temperature is

• An adiabatic process

• An isothermal process

• Impossible

Entropy can be

• Created but not destroyed

• Neither created nor destroyed

• Sometimes destroyed but never created

During an adiabatic compression of an ideal gas

• The internal energy of the gas remains constant

• The temperature of the gas does not change

• No heat is supplied to or removed from the gas

• No work is done on the gas

• None of the above choices are true

The greater the difference in temperature between the input reservoir and the output reservoir for a heat engine, the

• Greater the efficiency

• Less the efficiency

• Neither efficiency of a heat engine doesn't depend on temperature difference

When an ideal gas is subjected to an adiabatic process

• No work is done on the gas

• The temperature of the gas does not change

• The internal energy of the gas does not change

• Choices A, B, and C are all true

• None of the above choices are true

• Less entropy

• More entropy

• No entropy