Question

Mark is in charge of making change at his family's garage sale on a hot summer day. He runs low on change and brings out a jar of pennies from the house. He keeps the lid off of the jar. Later in the day, he notices that the pennies are hot. Which statement best explains what happened?\

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

The question is incomplete without the options. However, when a metal (in this case what the pennies are made of) is left in direct contact with the heat from the sun, it conducts this heat and becomes hot. This process is called thermal conduction. The thermal energy is readily accepted by the material in which the pennies are made of thereby increasing the thermal energy of the penny coin which then makes the pennies hot after being left under the sun.