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G9PhysicsWS7 2017

This document is a physics worksheet for Grade 9 students focusing on temperature and thermometry. It includes questions about temperature concepts, adaptations of living beings to different climates, types of thermometers, and problem-solving exercises related to temperature conversions and thermal expansion. The worksheet aims to assess students' understanding of thermodynamics and related measurements.

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G9PhysicsWS7 2017

This document is a physics worksheet for Grade 9 students focusing on temperature and thermometry. It includes questions about temperature concepts, adaptations of living beings to different climates, types of thermometers, and problem-solving exercises related to temperature conversions and thermal expansion. The worksheet aims to assess students' understanding of thermodynamics and related measurements.

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KOTEBE UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

MENELIK I SCIENCE SHARED CAMPUS

PHYSICS WORKSHEET TEMPERATURE


AND THERMOMETRY FOR GRADE 9
Answer the following questions based on the graph below

1. What is temperature?
2. How do human beings and other living creatures adapt to the temperature of Tropic,
Temperate and Polar zones?
3. List at least three bodies with very high temperature and very low temperature.
4. What is greenhouse effect?
5. What is the human body temperature in Kelvin scale?
6. Distinguish between mercury and alcohol thermometers
7. Name the two types of thermistors and explain their relation with temperature.
I. Choose the best answer from the given alternatives
8. Which of the following devices used to measure temperature?
A. Thermometer C. Transistor
B. Resistor D. Thermistor
9. The point of temperature at which motion of particles in a substances stops is
A. 0 ˚C C. 32 ˚F
B. -273.15 ˚C D. 273.15 K
10. Which thermometer works based on thermoelectricity?
A. Resistance thermometer C. Thermistor thermometer
B. Thermocouple thermometer D. Radiation thermometer
11. Which one SI unit of temperature?
A. ˚C B. ˚K C. ˚F D. K
II. Solve the following problems showing all the necessary steps
12. If the temperature of the surrounding is 40 oC , what is the temperature in ˚F?
13. Water is boiled to a temperature of 363.15 K . What does a Fahrenheit scale read for
this value?
14. The temperature of a hot metal is 300 ˚C. What is the value of this temperature in
Kelvin scale?
15. You designed your own thermometer and have a new temperature scale. On this
temperature scale the steam point is 456 degrees and the ice point is 96 degrees. What
is the temperature on this scale that corresponds to 28 degree Fahrenheit?
16. A thin rod of gold has a length of 0.2 m at a temperature of 30 oC. The rod falls into a
sink of hot water whose temperature is 50 oC . What is the change in the length of the
gold rod?
17. The initial length of a brass rod is 400 mm at a temperature of 20oC . What will be its
final length when it is heated to a temperature of 50oC?

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