Vocabulary
Energy Transfer
Sound
Light
Data Detectives
100
To move something from one place or thing to another.
What is transfer?
100
Heat always moves from this to this.
What is warmer to cooler?
100
Sound is made when objects do this.
What is vibrate?
100
The sun sends this kind of energy, along with heat, through space to Earth.
What is light energy?
100
This cup was warmer after 30 minutes.
What is the black cup?
200
Facts, numbers, and observations that scientists collect.
What is data?
200
You hold an ice cube and it melts. Heat is moving in this direction.
What is from your warm hand into the cold ice cube?
200
Whales hear each other underwater, and you hear a knock through a door. This shows sound can travel through ______ and ______.
What are water and solids?
200
Of sound and light, this one can travel through empty space.
What is light?
200
The white cup warmed up this many degrees in 30 minutes.
What is 9 degrees?
300
When you do this to data, you look closely to find patterns.
What is analyze?
300
A toaster changes electrical energy mostly into this.
What is heat?
300
You press a doorbell. Electrical energy changes into this kind of energy.
What is sound energy?
300
Dark colors absorb more of this kind of energy than light colors do.
What is light energy?
300
The black cup warmed up this many degrees in 30 minutes.
What is 24 degrees?
400
The energy carried by an electric current.
What is electrical energy?
400
A spoon in hot soup gets warm because of this.
What is heat transferring from the warmer soup to the cooler spoon?
400
Sound cannot travel through empty space because it needs _______.
What is matter?
400
Give one example of the sun transferring energy to Earth.
What is:
* sunlight warms a sidewalk?
* plants use sunlight to grow?
*solar panels use sunlight?
*car seat gets hot in the sun?
400
The pattern for both cups.
What is both cups got warmer every 10 minutes?
500
The complete path an electric current needs to flow. If it is broken (open), the current stops.
What is a circuit?
500
The four ways energy can be transferred from place to place.
What are sound, light, heat and electric currents?
500
A drummer hits a drum. Describe how the energy moves.
What is from the drumstick to the drum, then the drum vibrates and sound travels to our ears?
500
You turn on a flashlight. Name the energy transfer.
What is electrical energy changes into light energy?
500
What this data tells us about light and heat energy.
What is light energy from the sun transferred to the cups and warmed them, AND The black cup absorbed more light energy, so it got warmer?