Lightning
Everything you see when lightning strikes
What is a flash?
Energy is not created or destroyed, but it can be transferred.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
Anything that has mass (weight) and volume (takes up space)
What is matter?
Electricity is made of these particles.
What are electrons?
electric particles
What are electrons?
where lightning hits the ground or a structure
What is a strike?
Heat energy always flows in what direction?
hot to cold
Mass is neither created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
electricity that builds up on a material
What is static electricity?
What type of charge to electrons have?
What are negative charges?
When translated to English, what is the name of the DC Comic character Thor's hammer?
lightning
a measurement of kinetic energy
What is temperature?
Four states (phases) of matter
What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
What is the electromagnetic charge of an electron?
What is a negative charge?
When electrons move through materials
What is electricity?
Given the choice of open field, next to a tree, or in a car - where are you safest if lightning strikes?
in a car
The difference in the heat of two objects controls what aspect of heat transfer?
What is the rate (speed) of heat transfer?
The reason that we burn Calories
What is energy?
Term used to describe electricity moving from one place to another.
What is current?
This scientist discovered electrons.
J.J. Thompson
Why does lightning occur more frequently in south and south central United States?
Where do air masses of different temperatures and humidity collide (very different energies)?
In the energy transfer simulation, why do the hot (red) atoms start to move slower and turn pink? (2)
What is losing kinetic energy and become cooler?
Why doesn't burning one chip transfer the same amount of energy to 100 mL of water as to 200 mL of water?
What is it takes more energy to heat a larger mass to the same degree.
the differences in attractive forces between the bottom of the cloud and ground
What causes lightning?
A path for electrons to flow
What is a circuit