Forms of Energy
Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Electricity
Vocabulary
100
Coal
What material creates electricity?
100
Gasoline and Batteries
What are two kinds of potential energy?
100
Some examples are running or skiing.
What is kinetic energy?
100
A negative and a positive charge coming together
What causes lightning?
100
A lense
What causes light to bend?
200
An ocean wave
What is an example of something that carries energy?
200
Cars and People
What are two examples of potential energy that you see every day?
200
The definition of kinetic energy
What is energy in motion?
200
This goes from a generator to our homes
What is how electricity travels?
200
An electric circuit
What is the path that controlled electric current flows through?
300
Light and Heat
What forms of energy does the Sun produce?
300
In batteries, gasoline, and in an open circuit.
What are three ways we use potential energy?
300
Potential energy is stored energy, but kinetic energy is energy in motion.
What is the difference between potential and kinetic energy?
300
Energy will not flow
What happens when an electric circuit is open?
300
Two balloons pushing away from each other have the same of this
What is the same electric charge?
400
The forms of energy that animals change chemical energy into.
What are motion and heat?
400
Jumping off of a cliff and walking.
What are two types of movements that turn potential energy into kinetic energy?
400
Oil, coal, natural gas, and gasoline
What are some fuels whose energy comes from sunlight?
400
Light, heat, sound, and magnetic force
What are examples of how electricity changes forms?
400
The amount of thermal energy
What is the total energy of all the particles in an object?
500
This happens when vegetables are turned into energy in your body.
What is an example of chemical energy?
500
We save our energy for later events.
Why is potential energy important for our bodies?
500
Gasoline
What contains energy of living things that died long ago?
500
One of these is the path that electricity flows through and the other is the movement of an electric charge from one place to another.
What is the difference between an electric current and an electric circuit?
500
The movement of electrical energy from one place to another.
What is an electric current?
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