Vocabulary
Types of Energy
Basics
Diagrams
Miscellaneous
100

The ability to do work

Energy

100

Energy that is stored through stretching or squashing

Elastic potential energy

100

The law of conservation of energy

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it changes from one form to another.

100

The arrow points in the _________ of the transformation.

direction

100

TECAICELLR

ELECTRICAL

200

Energy often moves from one object to another

Energy transfer

200

Energy stored at the centre of atoms

Nuclear energy

200

2 types of waste energy

Sound energy and thermal energy

200

What information is written on the left hand side of the diagram

The energy input (type of energy, amount and units)

200

AOIRALNIVGATT

GRAVITATIONAL

300

Energy can be converted from one type to another.

Energy transformation

300

Energy that our eyes can usually detect. It moves in small packets of energy called photons.

Light energy

300

How do we represent an energy transformation scientifically?

Flow diagrams / Sankey diagrams

300

What information is written the at the tip of the straight arrow.

Useful energy output (type of energy, amount and units)

300

LECMHICA

CHEMICAL

400

The energy of motion

Kinetic Energy

400

Is generated by friction, burning chemicals and electrical devices.

Thermal energy

400

Efficient transformations produce less ______ energy.

Waste

400

What information is written the at the tip of the arrow pointing downwards (to the right).

Waste energy (type of energy, amount and units)

400

The faster the object is moving, or the more mass the object has, the greater the ______ energy

Kinetic

500

Energy that can be stored

Potential energy

500

Produced by the vibration of particles

Sound energy

500

The energy at the end must be ________ to the energy present at the beginning.

Equal

500

Unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI)

Joule

500

What is the formula to calculate energy efficiency?

                 useful energy (output)

efficiency = _________________    X 100

                 total output energy

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