Terms
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
You eat a pancake for breakfast and then walk to school. What form of energy was in the pancake?
What is chemical energy?
What type of energy transformation occurs in this scenario:
A wind turbine spinning
Mechanical energy (moving blades and turbine) changes to electrical energy.
MACE G. HELMS
What is a name in which each letter stands for a form of energy?
You get cold while waiting outside for the school bus, so you rub your hands together. What kind of energy are you creating?
What is heat (or thermal) energy?
What type of energy transformatio happen in this scenario:
Turning on a flashlight
Chemical energy to radiant.
(You could also include mechanical (for pushing the switch) and thermal.)
Another name for radiant energy
What is light?
Your family bought a new car that runs on gasoline. What type of energy is stored in gasoline?
What is chemical energy?
What type of energy transformation occurs in this scenario:
You ate an apple and then work out at a gym.
Chemical energy (apple) changes to mechanical (exercise motion) and thermal (heat).
What is an energy transformation?
Two energy resources that store nuclear energy.
What are the sun (solar) and uranium?
What type of transformation happens in this scenario:
A candle is burning.
Chemical energy is transformed into light and thermal energy.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
When you ride a roller coaster, what form of energy increases as you up a hill?
What is gravitational potential energy?
What transformation happens with a battery?