Type of Energy
Energy Transformation
Energy Transformation 2
Vocabulary
More Energy
100

Energy of Motion

What is kinetic energy?

100

Explain the transformation that takes place when you you plug a lamp in.

Electrical energy turns into light energy.

100

IF the speed of an object decreases its kinetic energy will ______________________.

What is decrease?

100

Stored energy

What is potential energy? 

100
Energy formed when an atom splits apart or when two atoms join to form one.
What is nuclear energy?
200

The type of Energy that depends on mass and height

What is Potential Energy?

200

Explain the transformation that takes place when you turn on a flashlight. From the battery to the light. 4 steps

What is Chemical (of the battery) to electrical (flow of electrons) to radiant (of the light) to thermal ( the heat produced by the light)

200

As the speed of a falling object increases, its potential energy will _____________________.

What is decrease?

200

Energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be transformed. 

What is the Law of Conservation of Energy? 

200
Energy from objects vibrating.
What is Heat or Thermal energy
300

Type of energy that is created by vibrations. 

What is sound?

300
Wind turbines convert _________________ energy into electrical energy.
What is mechanical
300

When you drop a book on the floor, what happens to its original potential energy?

What is the potential energy was transformed to kinetic?

300

This process converts radiant energy in to chemical energy

What is photosynthesis?

300
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to radiant energy.
What is lamp
400

Type of energy that depends on the flow of electrons

What is Electrical Energy?

400

Explain the transformation of energy that occurs in a generator. 

What is mechanical energy to electrical energy. 

400

A basketball is dropped from a height of 2m and another identical basketball is dropped from a height of 4m. Which ball has more kinetic energy just before it hits the ground?

What is The basketball dropped from a height of 4m because it has gained more speed?

400

Water in a reservoir is released through a dam and flows through a turbine, spinning it, which in turn activates a generator to produce electricity

What is hydropower?

400
This is a type of energy that travels in waves and can travel through empty space.
What is light energy
500

Type of energy stored in bonds of molecules

What is Chemical Energy?

500

Explain the transformation that takes place in a TV. (4)

What is electrical to light to sound and to heat
500

What are the two factors that kinetic energy depends on? 

What is mass and speed? 

500
Name Each type of energy and give an example
Light, Heat, Chemical, Nuclear, electrical, mechanical
500
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy ________________ and its kinetic energy _______________.
What is decrease and increase
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