True or False: energy is the ability to make a force that moves matter.
What is true?
100
A bird flying and a penny dropping are examples of this type of energy.
What is kinetic energy?
100
If a wave passes through matter, the matter is called this.
What is a medium?
100
True or False: heat is the only form of energy we detect with our eyes.
What is False, light is the only form of energy we detect with our eyes?
100
this tranforms the energy from sunlight either directly into heat energy or into heat that produces steam that turns a turbine.
What is solar energy?
200
Scientists define this type of energy as the average kinetic energy as the average kinetic energy of all the particles in that substance.
What is heat energy
200
True or False: potential energy decreases as you push an object away from something that is pulling on it.
What is false because potential energy increases?
200
True or false: for a circuit to carry electricity it has to be closed.
What is true?
200
a book with a green cover absorbs all the colors of light except what color.
What is green?
200
In modern society, many sources of energy--- chemical, solar, nuclear --- are converted into this type of energy
What is electrical energy?
300
Two examples of electrical energy.
What is heat in a lamp and a bolt of lightening?
300
Heat energy transfers when particles with greater kinetic energy collide with less-energetic particles.
What is conduction?
300
True or False: in a wave, energy travels from one place to another, and so does matter.
What is false because matter does not?
300
the two processes that allow us to see objects that do not produce their own light.
What is absorption and reflection?
300
fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of what
What is nonrenewable resources?
400
Two types of mechanical energy.
What is kinetic energy or energy of motion?
400
Warm air rising and cool air falling is an example of this.
What is convection?
400
Define: electrical energy.
What is energy that results from the movement of tiny particles called electrons?
400
light beams reflect off of this kind of surface in a predictable way.
What is shiny surfaces?
400
Geothermal plants are built in this kind of area.
What is rocky and hot layers just below the Earth's surface?
500
Three types of solar energy.
What is visible light, infrared radiation, and ultraviolet radiation?
500
a feather and a bowling ball dropped on the Moon from the same height would hit the ground at the same time. This object would have more kinetic energy. Explain.
What is a bowling ball has more energy so will be moving faster than the feather on the Moon?
500
True or false: Solar energy needs a medium to travel trough.
What is False?
500
A laser hits a mirror at 22 degrees to the normal. The angle of reflection is 22 degrees. This is an example of what law.
What is the Law of Reflection?
500
human beings produce this type of energy through the use of renewable and nonrenewable resources.