Vocab
Kinetic Energy vs Potential Energy
Energy Forms
Transfer of Heat
How do people use energy sources?
100
The ability to cause a change in matter.
What is energy?
100
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
100
Radiation we feel.
What is heat.
100
Transfer of thermal energy between objects with different temperatures.
What is heat?
100
Remains or traces of past life found in sedimentary rock.
What is a fossil?
200
The movement of energy from one place or object to another.
What is energy transfer?
200
Energy an object has because of its condition or position.
What is potential energy?
200
What forms of energy come directly from solar energy?
What is light and heat?
200
Occurs when heat or light bounces off an object.
What is reflection?
200
Using less of something to make the supply last longer.
What is conservation?
300
Energy that comes from the sun?
What is solar energy?
300
Explain energy transfer.
What is the movement of energy from one place or object to another.
300
The combination of all the potential and kinetic energy that something has.
What is mechanical energy?
300
Transfer of thermal energy through the movement of a gas or liquid.
What is convection?
300
A resource that, once used up, cannot be replaced within a reasonable amount of time.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
400
The transfer of thermal energy from one object directly into another.
What is conduction?
400
Name something that has potential energy?
What is a rock at the top of a cliff.
400
Is chemical energy potential or kinetic energy?
What is potential energy?
400
The transfer of energy by waves that move through matter and space.
What is radiation?
400
A resource that can be replaced within a reasonable amount of time.
What is renewable resource?
500
Any material that can used to satisfy a need.
What is a resource?
500
Explain when a roller coaster has kinetic and potential energy.
What is kinetic energy when it is moving and potential energy when it is at a top of a hill.
500
Name an item that would turn chemical energy directly into light energy?
What is a flashlight?
500
If you want heat to move from a light bulb to an object by conduction, where should you place the object?
What is touching the light bulb?
500
Name a renewable resource.
What is wind?
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