Energy Concepts
What is the ability to cause change or do work called?
What is energy?
What type of potential energy is stored between an object and the Earth?
What is gravitational potential energy?
What type of energy transformation occurs in an automobile engine?
What type of energy transformation occurs in an automobile engine?
What is the main use of petroleum?
What are plastics, gas, diesel, airplane fuel, and asphalt?
What are fossil fuels?
What are the remains of ancient organisms that can be burned as an energy source?
What type of energy is associated with motion?
What is kinetic energy?
What type of potential energy is stored in objects that are compressed or stretched?
What is elastic potential energy?
What type of energy transformation occurs in a loudspeaker?
What is electrical energy to sound energy?
What harmful environmental effect can result from burning coal?
What is acid rain?
Which type of burner is most efficient for cooking?
What is an electric burner?
Which has more kinetic energy: a truck or a car traveling at the same speed?
What is the object with greater speed?
What type of potential energy is stored in the bonds between atoms?
What is chemical potential energy?
What is the unit for energy?
What is Joule (J)?
What gas is produced when burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is renewable energy source?
What type of energy is stored in an object and converted to kinetic energy when released?
What is potential energy?
What happens to potential energy as an object falls?
What is it converts to kinetic energy?
What type of energy resource is replaced as fast as or faster than it is used?
What is a renewable energy resource?
How do solar panels generate electricity?
What is using energy from the sun to excite particles and create an electric current?
What is the effect of carbon dioxide acting like a blanket in the atmosphere?
What is global warming?
What does conserving energy mean?
What is being careful in how you use it and not wasting it?
What law states that energy can be transformed but never created nor destroyed?
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
How do hydroelectric power plants generate electricity?
What is using gravity to allow water to flow through a dam?
How is tidal current energy generated?
What is using turbines placed in the ocean where strong currents move in and out?
What is the Biblical interpretation of how fossil fuels were formed?
What is during a cataclysmic event like the flood, plants and animals became covered in mud and rock?