Vocabulary
This is defined as the ability to do work.
What is energy?
The most important source of light energy.
What is the sun?
This is the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
This type of light bulb uses the least amount of energy.
What is an LED bulb?
When we burn wood in a fire, we are converting this form of potential energy and turning it into heat energy.
What is chemical potential energy?
This is the name given to the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
One of the most common and useful forms of energy in daily life.
What is electrical energy?
This is the name for a type of energy that causes atoms to move quicker.
What is thermal energy or heat energy?
A light bulb converts electrical energy into these two energies
What are light and heat energies?
This type of energy can be used over and over again.
What is renewable energy?
This is the only source of energy we can actually see.
What is light energy?
This type of energy is present in a rock at the top of a hill.
What is gravitational potential energy?
This is the energy of motion or the energy at work.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the transfer of heat energy through direct contact.
What is conduction?
This type of resource will eventually run out.
What is a non-renewable resource?
This is the name given to the process in which plants turn light energy into food.
What is photosynthesis?
When a radio is plugged in and switched on to listen to music, (this energy) is transformed into (this energy).
What is electrical energy changing into sound energy?
Both of these types of energy produce "waves".
What are sound and light energy?
A hair dryer transforms (this kind of energy) to (this kind of energy) and (this kind of energy)
What is electrical energy to heat energy and sound energy?
This energy is sometimes called solar energy or light energy.
What is radiant energy?
The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy is never created or destroyed, it is only ________ from one form to another.
What is transformed (or changed)?
This sector of the economy uses the most energy.
What is the industrial sector?
This is the name given to the energy of motion.
What is mechanical or kinetic energy?
This is the name given to harmful gasses that are created when we burn fossil fuels and are believed to contribute to climate change.
What are greenhouse gasses?
This is the transfer of heat energy through circulating liquid or gas.
What is convection?