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Heat Cooling Heating Describe Explain Ways Transferred Organism

Front Describe and explain 4 ways that heat is transferred between an organism and their environment.
Back Transfer of heat:
  • Latent heat of evaporation - cooling as water evaporates
  • Radiation - transmission of EM waves
  • Convection - heating and cooling by currents of air/water
  • Conduction - heating as result of collision of mols


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