Vocabulary
Forms of Energy
What Type of Energy
Circuits
Riddles
100
Not allowing light to pass through.
What is opaque.
100
Energy that comes from an electric current.
What is electrical energy.
100
What forms of energy does a car have? (Name at least 3)
What is chemical, kinetic, mechanical, potential, thermal, light, sound
100
This type of circuit only has one path for the electricity to take.
What is a series circuit.
100
How many animals can jump higher than a house?
What is zero.
200
A force that acts between two touching objects and that opposes motion.
What is friction.
200
Energy that is released by a chemical reaction.
What is chemical energy.
200
What type of energy would a slinky at the top of the stairs have?
What is potential energy.
200
This type of circuit has more than one path for electricity to take.
What is a parallel circuit.
200
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
What is a candle.
300
A push or a pull, which may cause a change in an object’s motion.
What is force.
300
Energy an object has because of motion.
What is kinetic energy.
300
What types of energy are in a flashlight?
What is chemical and light energy.
300
A circuit that is working is said to be a what kind of circuit?
What is a closed or complete circuit.
300
What has hands but can not clap?
What is a clock.
400
The ability to cause changes in matter.
What is energy.
400
A form of energy that can travel through space and lies partly within the visible range.
What is light energy.
400
What forms of energy are in a radio that plugs into the wall?
What is sound, electrical, and light energy.
400
A circuit that is not working is said to be
What is an incomplete or open circuit.
400
What is at the end of a rainbow?
What is the letter W.
500
The bending of light waves as they pass from one material to another.
What is refraction.
500
The total amount of kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.
What is thermal energy.
500
What form of energy do we get from eating food?
What is chemical energy.
500
If a string of Christmas lights is plugged in and all but 2 light bulbs are lit, what kind of circuit is it?
What is a parallel circuit.
500
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
What is neither, they both weigh one pound.
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