Forms of Energy
The ability to do work or cause change
What is energy?
The energy we can see
What is light energy?
The energy of moving particles
What is thermal energy?
To move quickly back and forth
What is vibrate?
Property of some particles that causes them to attract or repel each other
What is electric charge?
The movement of electric charges
What is electrical energy?
When you can see light because it bounces off objects
What is reflection?
The transfer of energy from one place to another
What is heat?
How loud or soft a sound is
What is volume?
Materials that stop the movement of electric charge
What are insulators?
The energy we hear
What is sound energy?
When light bends off an object
What is refraction?
Sources of light and heat
What is burning or electricity?
How high or low a sound is
What is pitch?
A circuit with no gaps or breaks
What is a closed circuit?
Stored energy
What is potential energy?
An object absorbs some of the light that hits it
Why we see colors?
A disturbance that carries energy from one point to another point
What is a wave?
The number of sound waves made in a certain amount of time
What is frequency?
A circuit with a broken path
What is an open circuit?
Energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
Light is blocked by an object
What causes a shadow?
The distance between one crest and the next crest or one trough and the next trough
What is wavelength?
The kind of pitch high-frequency sounds have
What is a high pitch?
A material through which electric charge moves easily
What is a conductor?