Select all of the following that are examples of conduction.
A) when you are sitting by a campfire, the heat you feel on your body
B) the heat you feel from the Sun on a hot summer day
C) when you are heating water in a pot, water is heated on the bottom and then rises to the top to be replaced by cooler water
D) when you accidentally touch the bottom of a pot that you just boiled water in, the heat you feel from the pot
E) the metal hot dog holders used to roast hot dogs over an open fire gradually heat up over the fire and eventually heat up the handle

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Conduction is the transfer of heat through a medium from one particle to another without any movement of the medium itself. D) touching a hot pot and E) metal hot dog holders heating up are direct examples of heat being transferred through a solid medium (the pot and the metal holder, respectively) by conduction.

Select All of the Following That Are Examples of Conduction