Energy Transformations
Energy
Potential and Kinetic
Types of Energy
Definitions
100
Burning a candle.
Chemical energy -> thermal energy + radiation energy
100

When heat is taken away/removed from a liquid and turns into a gas.

Evaporating

100
The process of saving up or storing energy
Potential energy.
100
Energy that has the ability to fall; this type of energy increases the higher up you go.
Gravitational energy.
100
Energy
The ability to do work.
200
Using a hot plate to boil water.
Electrical energy -> thermal energy
200

The moving blades of a fan

turbine

200
The process of using energy or energy in motion
Kinetic energy.
200
You can burn it or you can eat it.
Chemical energy.
200
Renewable Resource
A resource that will always be available, for example, solar power, water power, and wind power.
300
A hungry football player eating a large sandwich to use the food for energy.
Chemical energy -> mechanical energy
300

To save energy

Conserve

300
A heavy vase on a table has this type of energy.
Gravitational energy.
300
This type of energy is generated by a force - a push or a pull.
Mechanical energy.
300
Non-Renewable Resource
Resources that cannot be replaced once they are burned. For example, petroleum, coal, natural gas, uranium, and propane.
400
Using gasoline in a car.
Chemical energy -> Mechanical energy
400

Coal, oil, natural gas are examples

Fossil Fuels

400
A person running down the sidewalk has this type of energy.
Mechanical energy.
400
An atom splitting is this type of energy.
Nuclear energy.
400
Elastic Energy
Stored energy by something being compressed or stretched.
500
Water on top of Niagra Falls falling down.
Gravitational energy -> Mechanical energy
500

The more molecules move the more _______ energy they have.

Thermal

500
A person that has just jumped from an airplane has these types of energy (TWO TYPES)
Gravitational potential and mechanical energy.
500

The sun is an example of this type of energy 

Solar Energy

500
The Law of Conservation of Energy.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changes form.
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