Vocabulary
Types of Energy
Energy Conversion
Sources of Energy 1
Sources of energy 2
100
What is energy?
The ability to do work (the fuel to be able to do things)
100
An apple about to drop from a tree is an example of what kind of energy?
Gravitational potential energy
100
what is the energy conversion shown below?
mechanical energy to thermal and sound energy
100
Wind, solar, and biomass are examples of what?
Renewable energy sources.
100
What is nonrenewable energy?
Non-renewable energy comes from sources that will run out or will not be replenished in our lifetimes.
200
What is the energy of motion.
Kinetic energy
200
What is the form of energy shown?
Elastic energy
200
What the energy conversion used in a rollercoaster?
Gravitational potential energy to mechanical energy
200
Turbines collect this energy source in wide open spaces like hills.
Wind energy
200
Energy created from the fusion or breaking of atoms.
Nuclear energy.
300
What is the type of energy that is stored.
Potential energy.
300
Turning a doorknob is an example of what kind of energy?
Mechanical Energy
300
what is the energy conversion done during Photosynthesis?
Radiant energy to chemical energy
300
What kind of energy is shown in the picture below?
Nuclear energy
300
What do we call fuel sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas?
Nonrenewable energy sources
400
What is renewable energy?
Renewable energy is any kind of energy that comes from natural sources and won't run out in a lifetime.
400
What type of energy is found in food?
Chemical potential energy
400
When you put gas in a car, ________ energy is being transformed into ___________ energy.
Chemical, Mechanical
400
The sun provides what two types of energy?
Heat and Light or Radiant
400
What is Hydro Power?
A renewable energy source that uses water to generate power
500
What is a measurement of the gravitational force on an object.
Weight
500
What type of energy is it when two objects are pulled/pushed together/apart with magnetism? is this type of energy potential or kinetic?
Magnetic potential energy
500
What is the law of energy conservation?
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed.
500
Heat energy from the earth.
Geothermal energy.
500
What is a solid found in the ground that is burnable. Primarily used as fuel to generate electric power in the Australia.
Coal.