Forms of Energy 1
An example of thermal energy
What is a fire?
Energy locked in the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
The energy an object has due to its motion
What is kinetic energy?
A system that transforms energy from electrical to radiant
What is a light bulb?
The breaking down of rocks
What is weathering?
The energy of light
What is radiant energy?
Energy that is kinetic or potential
What is mechanical energy?
The energy an object has due to its position
What is potential energy?
A system that transforms energy from potential to sound
What is a musical instrument?
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
The energy of moving electrons
What is electrical energy?
What sound needs in order to exist
What is matter?
The point in the roller coaster with the greatest potential energy:
What is the top of the hill?
The law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change forms
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The four soil horizons
What are O, A, B, C?
The energy from vibrations in matter.
What is sound energy?
Two forms of Kinetic Energy
What is electrical, radiant, thermal, and sound?
The point in a pendulum with the greatest amount of potential energy
What is right before it is dropped?
A system that transforms energy from chemical to mechanical to kinetic
What is a car, or battery-operated toy that moves?
The rock type that Obsidian belongs to
What is igneous?
Energy stored in the bonds of molecules
What is chemical energy?
Two forms of Potential energy
What are nuclear and chemical energy?
An example of an system that goes simply from potential to kinetic
What is a yoyo? (or something similar)
A system that transforms energy from nuclear to electrical
What is a nuclear power plant?
The speed of a baseball thrown 90 meters in 2 seconds.
What is 45 m/s?