Energy Transformations
Simple Machines
Potential and Kinetic
Types of Energy
Definitions
100
Burning a candle.
Chemical energy -> heat energy + light energy
100
A simple machine that is a flat slanted surface
What is an incline plane?
100
What is the process of saving up or storing energy?
Potential energy.
100
Energy that has the ability to fall; this type of energy increases the higher up you go.
Gravitational energy.
100
Energy is defined as _________.
The ability to do work.
200
A lamp is plugged into an out and turns on
Electrical energy -> Radiant (light) energy
200
A machine made of two or more simple machines.
What is a compound machine?
200
What is the process of spending energy or energy in motion.
Kinetic energy.
200
"You can burn it or you can eat it."
Chemical energy.
200
List the renewable resources (list at least 2 out of the 5 possibilities.)
Biomass, hydropower, geothermal, wind and solar.
300
A hungry football player eating a large sandwich to use the food for energy.
Chemical energy -> mechanical energy
300
A fixed point in which a lever rotates around? and A an incline plane wrapped around a central cylinder to form a spiral?
What is a fulcrum? and What is a screw?
300
A heavy vase on a table has this type of energy.
(Gravitational) potential energy.
300
This type of energy is generated by a force - a push or a pull.
Mechanical energy.
300
List the Non-Renewable resources (list at least 2 out of the 5 possibilities.)
Petroleum, coal, natural gas, uranium and propane.
400
Using a solar-powered calculator. (3)
Radiant (solar) energy to electrical energy to light energy
400
The first simple machine is thick on one end and tapers to a thin edge on the other. The second simple machine is a rope or chain wrapped around a grooved wheel
What is a wedge? What is a pulley
400
A person running down the sidewalk has this type of energy.
(Mechanical) kinetic energy.
400
An atom splitting is this type of energy.
Nuclear energy.
400
Define gravity.
The force of attraction between all objects in the universe.
500
Playing Music on a radio.
Electrical energy -> sound energy
500
The type of simple machine (s) a. Scissors b. Flag Pole c. Circular Doorknob
a b c
500
A person that has just jumped from an airplane has this type of energy.
(Gravitational) potential and kinetic energy.
500
The sun is an example of this type of energy.
Heat, Radiant, Nuclear and Gravitational
500
List the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Energy can not be created or destroyed, it can
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