Energy Transfer
Energy cannot be...
What is created or destroyed?
Energy for a car
What is gasoline?
This rubber band stored more energy in the rubber band racers.
Thin or Thick
What is a thick rubber band?
The weight at the end of the pendulum.
What is a bob?
Electricity travels from:
What is negative to positive?
Energy can be moved from...
What is one thing (or object) to another?
Energy for people
What is food?
Winding the rubber band before letting it go is this kind of energy.
Potential or Kinetic
What is potential energy?
A pendulum (loses or gains) energy as it swings.
What is loses?
Electricity travels along a...
What is a pathway or circuit?
A cup of hot tea has this kind of energy.
a. solar b. thermal c. kinetic
What is thermal energy?
Energy for a rock rolling down a hill
What is gravitational (or height) energy?
This hill had more energy.
Taller or shorter
What is the taller hill?
A pendulum (cannot or will) swing as high or higher than its first swing.
What is cannot swing as high or higher?
Electrical energy can make things:
What is move, light up, heat up, cool off, etc?
A larger object transfers (more or less) energy than a smaller object.
What is more energy?
Energy for a cell phone
What is a battery (stored energy)?
The reason that the tallest hill had to be first.
What is to give enough energy to the marble (car) to make it over the other hills?
This changed the number of swings in our pendulum.
angle of drop OR length of the string
What is the length of the string?
Conductors are...
What is things electricity can travel through, for example: metal, water, wires.
A faster moving object transfer (more or less) energy than a slower moving object.
What is more energy?
Energy for a domino chain
What is a person lifting them up and starting them falling?
The second marble had to be set here in order to make it through the coaster.
At the bottom of a hill OR At the top of a hill
What is at the top of a hill?
An example of a pendulum in "real life".
What is (many possible answers: crane, grandfather clock, metronome, seismograph, amusement ride)?
Device that can stop and start the flow of electricity in a circuit.
What is a switch?