A Trivia Quiz On Temperature and Thermal Energy?

1. The lowest temperature possible in nature is

0 degrees C

-273 degrees C

4 K

2. 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

3. 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

4. A quantity of water has more entropy when it is

Frozen ice

Boiling

At room temperature

5. 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

6. Entropy measures

Temperature at constant pressure

Temperature at constant volume

Temperature as pressure increases

Temperature as volume increases

Messiness

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

Possible

Impossible

Impossible to answer without additional information

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Chinook winds tend to

Warm an environment

Cool an environment

Cool deserts at night

Warm deserts at sunrise

12. Entropy is closely related to the

1st law of thermodynamics

2nd law of thermodynamics

Both of these

Neither of these

13. 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

14. 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

15. A process which takes place at constant temperature is

An adiabatic process

An isothermal process

Impossible

16. Entropy can be

Created but not destroyed

Neither created nor destroyed

Sometimes destroyed but never created

17. 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

18. 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

19. When an ideal gas is subjected to an adiabatic process