Energy Vocabulary I
The ability to make things change or move
What is energy?
The greatest source of heat and light energy that Earth has.
What is the sun?
A kid at the top of a slide is an example of this type of energy.
What is stored or potential energy?
Another word for heat.
What is thermal?
Energy that travels in waves you can hear.
What is sound energy?
An object's stored energy plus its energy of motion.
What is mechanical energy?
The form of energy a flashlight gives off.
What is light?
Running around in P.E. is this type of energy.
What is mechanical or kinetic energy?
What you see when light bounces off an object like a mirror.
What is a reflection?
This means to move quickly back and forth.
What is vibrate?
This energy flows through wires.
What is electrical?
Rubbing your hands together to warm up on a cold winter day creates this.
What is heat?
Forms of energy a hair dryer gives off and uses.
What is electrical, sound, heat, and light?
What it is called when two things rub together and produce heat.
What is friction?
How high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
When you move it's called ___________.
What is kinetic energy?
Light bending as it passes from one kind of matter to another, such as when a straw appears broken in a glass of water.
What is refraction?
Ipads and laptops need this type of energy in order to work.
What is electrical?
The measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
How loud or soft something is.
What is volume?
Energy that is not yet used.
What is stored or potential?
The taking in of light by a material which produces shadows.
What is absorbing light?
Many light sources also give off______________ energy.
What is heat?
Heat always moves from an object with a ____________ temperature to one with a ____________ temperature.
What is higher (warmer/hotter) and lower (cooler/colder)?
Something vibrating quickly makes this kind of sound.
What is high?