Q: What type of energy from a warm cola results in melting when it is transferred to the much colder ice?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

How do you cool down a glass of room-temperature cola? You probably add ice cubes to it, as in the Figure below . You might think that the ice cools down the cola, but in fact, it works the other way around. The warm cola heats up the ice. Thermal energy from the warm cola is transferred to the much colder ice, causing it to melt. The cola loses thermal energy in the process, so its temperature falls.

 Choices:

- protective energy

- gaseous energy

- cyclic energy

- thermal energy


A:
thermal energy