Question: One way of modifying your solar house was to include a heat sink such as a container of water or masses of rock. What is the advantage of including a heat sink in a house?
Reference answer: A heat sink would absorb heat during the daytime and release the heat during the nighttime to keep the house warmer longer.

Student answer: It gains more heat.

Student answer: The house would be warmer.

Student answer: The advantage is that when you are including a heat sink it takes up some space.

Student answer: The advantage is the water and rocks would not probably warm up the house that much.

Student answer: It will get warmer.

Student answer: A heat sink can absorb an enormous amount of heat and takes a long time to cool down.

Student answer: The advantage is to heat up slowly and keep the temperature high then it heats down slowly and is still a little high.

Student answer: If the rock container my home. I think it will be cold. They are going to have no sun or heat.

Student answer: I think it depends what you are using.

Student answer: It would be hotter at night.

Student answer: I did not do the heat sink, but I did do the insulation. The insulation is to not let heat to come out of the house.

Student answer: The heat sink absorbs heat slowly and releases it slowly, so the hot air would stay inside the house longer.

Student answer: To keep the temperature how you want it to be by absorbing solar energy slowly and releasing it slowly. Like if you want it to be warm inside and it is cold outside you can put carpet inside your house.

Student answer: A thermometer then we check it every 5 minutes and it always changes the temperature and the time.

Student answer: Because Linda's room faces the sun and as the sun shines in the window the room will heat up.

Student answer: It depends the color of your house if the house is black the heat sink in a house will be hot, if the house is white your heat sink it would be cooler.

Student answer: That the house will be cooler.

Student answer: The house will stay cool.

Student answer: The house would heat up a little faster.

Student answer: So if it is heating it will turn the water hot and if it is cool it will keep the water cold.

Student answer: You could keep more warmth.

Student answer: The advantage is that it keeps your house warm.

Student answer: The advantage of including a heat sink in our solar houses would be that it would keep the heat in one place and release it slower.

Student answer: The advantage of having a heat sink in your house is that the heat slowly rises.

Student answer: The advantage of having a heat sink is that a heat sink absorbs more heat than a house without anything.

Student answer: One of the advantages of having a heat sink in the solar house was that it would absorb heat and release it slowly so the house would stay warm.

Student answer: The advantage of including a heat sink in a house would be that the house would probably stay warm.

Student answer: I used a black piece of paper and it was put on the bottom of the floor.

Student answer: As the house heats up so does the heat sink then at night fall the heat sink transfers heat into the air keeping it warmer than the others.

Student answer: When the water or masses of rock absorb heat they transfer it slowly enough that it keeps the room or area warmer.

Student answer: Not very good because a house gathers a lot of solar energy so it really does not need one.

Student answer: The water will be burning or boiling.

Student answer: It would keep your house hotter longer because the heat sink releases energy slowly and will continue to give off heat even if the sun has set.

Student answer: You could be cooler.

Student answer: The advantage will be that the house will get hotter because the heat sink is absorbing the heat and is letting it release the heat slowly.

Student answer: The advantage is that a heat sink can absorb the heat and energy!

Student answer: Heat sink will you power and you do not pay money for power.

Student answer: When your house is cold it is hard to get more cold.

Student answer: The good thing about having a heat sink in the house is that it keeps your house warm and it absorbs heat.

Student answer: The advantage of including a heat sink inside the house will keep the house cool because heat sinks do not absorb a lot of heat.