Vocab
Kinetic Energy
Potential Energy
Energy Transfers
Misc
100
The definition of energy
What is the ability to make something move or change?
GIVE HALF YOUR POINTS TO ANOTHER TEAM
100
The type of energy associated with a moving object
What is kinetic energy?
100
The energy an object has that is stored for future use.
What is potential energy?
100
A moving cart hits a stationary cart, and the stationary cart begins moving. Why did the second cart move?
Energy was transferred to it
100
The main sport featured in the movie "Space Jam"
Basketball
200
The type of energy associated with a moving object
What is kinetic energy?
200
Which has kinetic energy: a bicycle parked against a wall or a bicycle moving down the street?
The moving bicycle
200
The place where potential energy is the highest
Where is A?
200
A bow is pulled back and then released. How does the arrow begin moving in terms of energy?
PE from the bow transfers to the arrow (KE)
200
The fish used to make calamari
What is squid?
EARN 1 ADDITIONAL POINT
(yay)
300
The type of energy associated with an object at rest (non-moving)
What is potential energy?
300
Two carts move at the same speed. Cart A has twice as much mass as Cart B. Which cart has more kinetic energy?
Cart A
300
The location at which potential energy is the highest
Where is A?
300
The place where kinetic energy is the highest
Where is B?
TAKE 200 POINTS FROM ANOTHER TEAM
300
The "King of Pop"
Michael Jackson
400
A group of interacting objects scientists choose to study, such as a roller coaster car and Earth.
system
400
The energy in a system that is responsible for the temperature of objects
What is thermal energy?
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400
Two repelling magnets are held very close together and then moved farther apart. Which arrangement stores more potential energy?
Close together
400
“At the bottom of the hill, the roller coaster’s potential energy disappeared and new kinetic energy was created.”
What is wrong with this statement?
Energy did not disappear, and new energy was not created.
400
The location of the Colosseum (city and country)
Where is Rome, Italy
500
This "Law" explains why a cart stops moving, but its energy does not simply disappear.
Conservation of Energy
500
During a collision, Cart A slows from 4 m/s to 1 m/s while Cart B speeds up from 0 m/s to 3 m/s
Energy was transferred from Cart A to Cart B
500
Two rocks are on top of the same hill in the same spot, but they have don't have the same amount of potential energy. How could this be?
One of the rocks has more mass
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500
Draw a simple bar graph showing the relationship between kinetic and potential energy at Point A
500
The Pythagorean Theorem
What is a2 + b2 = c2