Potential or Kinetic
Forms of Energy
Thermal Energy and How it Moves
Energy Transformations
Electricity and Circuits
100
This type of energy is dependent on an object's speed and mass.
What is kinetic energy?
100
This type of energy is found in our food and is stored in our cells.
What is chemical energy?
100
An object's thermal energy depends on these two things.
What are its mass and temperature?
100
The sun sends this kind of energy to plants, which then transform is into chemical energy.
What is electromagnetic energy?
100
An electrical circuit with only one path for electricity to flow through.
What is a series circuit?
200
This type of energy is dependent on an object's position or shape.
What is potential energy?
200
This type of energy is made by the sun, and includes radio waves, infrared, visible light, and x-rays.
What is electromagnetic energy?
200
Between a bowl of water at 5 degrees celsius and a lake at 5 degrees celsius, this one will have more thermal energy.
What is the lake?
200
Your body takes the chemical energy in your food and turns it into this form of energy.
What is thermal energy?
200
An electrical circuit with more than one path for electricity to flow through.
What is a parallel circuit?
300
In order to increase an object's gravitational potential energy, you must do this.
What is raise the object's height above the ground?
300
This type of energy is created when electrons flow through a conductor.
What is electrical energy?
300
This type of heat transfer moves thermal from object to object through direct contact.
What is conduction?
300
When a match is struck, the mechanical energy of the moving matching is transformed into chemical energy and these two other forms of energy.
What are thermal and electromagnetic energy?
300
This device changes mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
400
In order to increase the kinetic energy of an object that weighs 10 kg, you must increase this.
What is its speed?
400
This type of energy is a combination of an object's kinetic and potential energy.
What is mechanical energy?
400
This type of heat transfer moves thermal energy through air or liquids.
What is convection?
400
When electrical current moves through a wire coil, it can create this kind of force.
What is magnetic force?
400
A device that is used to increase or decrease voltage.
What is a transformer?
500
This type of energy is found in objects that can be stretched or compressed.
What is elastic potential energy?
500
This form of energy is dependent on an object's mass and temperature.
What is thermal energy?
500
This type of heat transfer uses electromagnetic waves to move thermal energy.
What is radiation?
500
A speaker uses these two types of energy to make sound waves.
What ware electrical and magnetic?
500
The process in which electrical current is generated when a wire coil moves through a magnetic field.
What is electromagnetic induction?
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