Type of Energy
Energy of Motion
What is kinetic energy?
Explain the transformation that takes place when you you plug a lamp in.
Electrical energy turns into light energy.
IF the speed of an object decreases its kinetic energy will ______________________.
What is decrease?
Stored energy
What is potential energy?
The type of waves that move perpendicular to the direction of the wave.
What are transverse waves?
The type of Energy that depends on mass and height
What is Potential Energy?
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)
As the speed of a falling object increases, its potential energy will _____________________.
What is decrease?
The Law of Conservation of Energy.
What is Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it just changes form?
What type of waves is energy transferred through parallel movement of medium along the direction of the wave.
What are longitudinal waves?
Type of energy that occurs when a bow is being held back in its farthest position.
What is elastic potential energy?
When you drop a book on the floor, what happens to its original potential energy?
What is the potential energy was transformed to kinetic?
Gravitational potential energy depends on an object's ________.
What is height?
A sound wave is an example of this type of wave.
What is longitudinal wave?
Type of energy that occurs when a rock being held over the edge of a cliff.
What is Gravitational Potential Energy?
Explain the transformation of energy that occurs when a toaster is plugged into a wall socket and operating correctly.
What is electrical energy to thermal energy.
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy ________________ and its kinetic energy _______________.
What is decreases and increases?
Elastic potential energy depends on an object's ________ .
What is shape?
A human wave at a stadium is an example of this kind of wave.
What is a transverse wave?
Type of energy that occurs when grass has been eaten by a deer.
What is Chemical Energy?
Explain the transformation that takes when a student eats lunch then plays at recess. (3)
What is chemical to mechanical to thermal?
A student stretches a rubber band and then releases it. The elastic potential energy ___________ as the rubber band is stretched and the kinetic energy __________ when the rubber band releases.
What is increases and increases?
Chemical potential energy depends on an object's _________.
What is stored chemical bonds.
Air, water, and solids are all _________ that waves transfer energy through.
What is mediums?