Question

Please select the word from the list that best fits the definition When you touch a hot plate, the transfer of heat from the plate to your hand is called ______.

Answer 1

When you touch a hot plate, the transfer of heat from the plate to your hand is called Conduction.

Conduction is the answer you are looking for. 

Answer 2

The right answer is Conduction.

Thermal conduction (or thermal diffusion) is a mode of thermal transfer caused by a temperature difference between two regions of the same medium, or between two media in contact, and being realized without global displacement of material (on a macroscopic scale ) as opposed to convection which is another heat transfer. It can be interpreted as the transmission from near to thermal agitation: an atom (or a molecule) gives up some of its kinetic energy to the neighboring atom.

Thermal conduction is a process of internal energy transport linked to molecular agitation and due to heterogeneity of the medium on a macroscopic scale.