Definitions
Definitions 2
Trivia
Factoids
A Bit Tricky
100
Energy in motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
100
The ability to cause a change.
What is energy?
100
All forms of energy are a combination of these two types of energy.
What are potential and kinetic energy?
100
An example of electrical energy being transferred to thermal energy.
What is turning on a light bulb, heating a stove, turning on a computer, etc?
100
One of the factors that effects potential energy.
What is gravity, stretching or compressing, or chemical composition.
200
Energy that moves objects.
What is mechanical energy?
200
Stored energy, not in motion.
What is potential energy?
200
When energy is converted from one form to another this is usually produced.
What is heat?
200
An example of how energy is stored.
What is water behind a dam, batteries, fat cells, wood, gas, etc?
200
One of the types of batteries.
What is dry cell, wet cell, or storage batteries?
300
Vibrations in the air, a water, or a solid.
What is sound energy?
300
Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
300
An objects kinetic energy is determined by these two variables.
What is mass and speed?
300
An example of a nonrenewable resource.
What is oil, coal, or natural gas?
300
The substance within a battery that conducts the electricity.
What is the electrolyte?
400
Energy due to different wavelengths from the sun.
What is electromagnetic energy?
400
Energy stored in matter.
What is chemical energy?
400
An object at the top of a hill has potential energy due to this variable.
What is the objects position?
400
An example of a renewable resource.
What is wind, solar, geothermal, or biomass?
400
The cell that collects solar energy and converts it to electrical energy.
What is photoelectric cells or photovoltaic cells?
500
Heat energy due to the movement of particles?
What is thermal energy?
500
Almost all energy on Earth begins as this type of energy.
What is electromagnetic energy?
500
One of the energy transformations that occur in a dam.
What is mechanical to electrical, or potential to kinetic, or kinetic to mechanical?
500
Nikola was responsible for inventing this.
What is alternating current generator or tesla coil?
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