Types of Energy
Thermal Energy Transfer
Magnets and Electricty
Potential and Kinetic
Potpourri
100
The ability to cause changes in matter; the ability to do work.
What is energy?
100
Transfer of thermal energy between objects of different temperatures.
What is heat?
100
Like poles _______ like poles
What is repel.
100
Energy that is due to the position or condition of an object.
What is potential energy?
100
A north-seeking pole ___________ a south-seeking pole.
What is attracts?
200
The energy that hold protons and neutrons together in an atom's nucleus.
What is nuclear energy?
200
The average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is temperature?
200
Movement of electric charge from one place to another
What is electric energy?
200
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
200
A single path for current, and it passes through each device on its way to the next device.
What is a series circuit?
300
The kinetic energy of moving particles of a substance or object.
What is thermal energy?
300
Transfer of thermal energy as waves (ie. feeling the sun on a hot, clear, summer day).
What is radiation?
300
Substance in which all the domains are aligned in the same direction
What is a magnet?
300
The energy of a car at the top of a roller coaster.
What is potential energy?
300
Name two things in which chemical energy is stored (from the book).
What is food, batteries, fossil fuels, wood, water?
400
A form of potential energy stored in reactants.
What is chemical energy?
400
Transfer of thermal energy by touch (ie. a pot sitting on a hot stove).
What is conduction?
400
The type of circuit used to wire your house.
What is parallel circuit?
400
The energy of a pendulum at the bottom of its swing.
What is kinetic energy?
400
This occurs when the ends of a wire are reversed in a circuit.
What is change direction?
500
Law that states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed; it can only change forms.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
500
Transfer of heat through fluids (ie. the inside of a greenhouse).
What is convection?
500
Magnet that can be turned on and off at will.
What is an electromagnet?
500
When a book falls off a table, its _______ changes to _______
What is potential changes to kinetic energy?
500
This is missing from space that would allow the sun's heat to travel to earth via conduction or convection.
What is a medium?
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