Definitions
The ability to do work
What is energy?
A bicycle at the top of a hill
Potential energy is the energy an object has due to its ________.
What is position? Waiting to be used, stored?
The sun
Where does most of our energy come from?
What is geothermal?
Chemical potential energy (CPE)
What is your breakfast called? Food?
Kinetic energy is the energy an object has due to its _____.
What is motion?
Joule
What is the standard unit of measurement for energy?
Resources like solar energy are
What is renewable energy?
energy from water in a dam
What is hydroelectric?
The ability to of doing work based off an electric charge
What is electric potential energy?
Kinetic energy can be calculated from what two measurements
What is mass and velocity?
The most potential energy of a car driving.
What is the top of a hill?
Resources like fossil fuels are
What are non renewable?
radio active energy
What is nuclear energy?
A spring
What is elastic potential energy?
Joule
What is the standard unit of measurement?
Gravitational potential energy is the potential energy of an object based on its
What is the height and mass?
The two broad categories of energy
What is [potential and kinetic?
The windmills on the way to California are doing
What is wind energy?
Gaining speed going up a hill.
What is is Potential energy?
If the mass of an object was doubled what would happen to its energy?
What is, it would double?
If a red ball is higher than a blue ball and both balls have the same mass, which ball has more potential energy
What is the red ball?
diagram that shows how energy is used by producers
What is a food chain?
Coal
What is a fossil fuel?