Energy and Motion
Simple Machines
Electricity and
Magnetism
Sound and Light
Vocabulary
100

The action or process of moving


What is motion?

100

Types of machines that include very few parts and make work easier.

What are simple machines?

100

An invisible force that can attract and repel


What is magnetism?

100

A dark area that forms when an object blocks lightwaves


What is a shadow?

100

The amount of matter contained in an object


What is mass?

200

Something applied to push or pull an object


What is force?

200

The six types of simple machines


What are wheel and axle, inclined plane, lever, screw, wedge, pulley

200

An energy that can shock you


What is electricity?

200

The thing that waves carry


What is energy?

or sound energy, or light energy

200

Stored energy that has not been used


What is potential energy?

300

A way of showing how energy changes form

What is an energy chain?

300

Something that uses more than one simple machine


What is....(many answers) some options:

crane, elevator, pulley system, wedge, bicycle, can opener, etc.


300

The path along which electrical current flows


What is a circuit?

300

A place where light waves exist without sound waves


What is outer space?

300

Energy of a moving object


What is kinetic energy?

400

Three forms of energy


What are heat, sound, and light?

400

When something is made of two or more simple machines


What is a compound machine?

400

Two points of a magnet where the attraction and repulsion are the strongest


What are the poles?

400

The color spectrum that we can see is made of these



What are light waves?

400

A pulling force that attracts objects to each other


What is gravity?

500

Something at rest stays at rest, something motion stays in motion...


What is Newton's first law of motion?

500

A person who uses science and math to design products and processes that meet needs and solve problems


What is an engineer?

500

The often iron-containing product that results when electricity is combined with a magnet


What is an electromagnet?

500

The speed of light is almost a million times faster than this


What is the speed of sound?

or sound waves

500

A power system that uses pressurized air to make work happen


What is pneumatic?

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