Forms of Energy
Heat Transfer
Light Energy
What type of energy?
Miscellaneous
100
Is heat (thermal energy) considered potential or kinetic energy?
Kinetic Energy
100
What type of energy is heat?
Thermal Energy
100
Light energy is made up of bundles called _________.
Photons
100
What type of energy?
Chemical
100
What is the ability to do work or cause change?
Energy
200
What type of energy relates to the position of something?
Kinetic or Potential
Potential Energy
200
Energy from the sun reaches earth mainly by the process of?
Radiation
200
What does this diagram represent?
Reflection
200
What type of energy?
Mechanical
200
Can energy be created or destroyed?
Yes or No
No
300
What type of energy involves splitting the nucleus of an atom?
Nuclear Energy
300
What type of heat transfer does this picture represent? 
convection
300
What type of object will absorb the most light energy?
1. a piece of glass 3. a snowball
2. a mirror 4. a black sweater
4. a black sweater
300
What type of energy?
Sound energy
300
Look at diagram on the board:
Which diver has the most potential energy?
After they jump, which diver will have the most kinetic energy?
Diver C
Diver C
400
What form of energy involves moving parts?
Mechanical Energy
400
How is heat energy transferred within the liquid water in the pond?
Convection currents
400
What does the following picture represent?
Refraction
400
What is the energy transformation shown below?
Heat --> mechanical
400
What happens to the kinetic and potential energy as a child rides his bike down a hill?
Potential energy decreases
Kinetic energy increases
500
What type of energy cannot travel in a vacuum, and is caused by vibrations?
Sound Energy
500
What type of heat transfer explains a metal spoon getting hot after being used to stir soup?
conduction
500
Using the electromagnetic spectrum, what type of energy has the shortest wavelength? Which type has the longest wavelength? Does infrared have a shorter or longer wavelength than visible light?
Shortest - Gamma
Longest - Radio
Infrared is longer than Visible Light
500
What is the sequence of energy transformations after a battery-operated flashlight is turned on?
Chemical --> electrical --> light
500
What is the law that states "Energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be transformed from one form to another"?
The Law of Conservation of Energy