Energy, Sweet Energy
Astronauts Away
Greta Tunberg
Miscellaneous
100

How air rising and cold air sinking in a house is what type of thermal energy transfer? 

What is convection?

100

What is the difference between kinetic and potential energy? 

What is kinetic is energy of motion, potential is stored energy. 

100

Why are more countries moving towards renewables?

What is cost?

100
True or False: Wind turbines that spin slower create MORE kinetic energy than ones that spin faster.

What is false? 

200

A house getting warmed up through light coming through an open window is what kind of thermal energy transfer? 

What is radiation? 

200

A ball sitting at the top of a ledge just before it falls off has what type of energy? 

What is gravitational energy? 

200

Which type of countries are responsible for climate change?

What is developed countries?

200

When the energy that enters Earth's atmosphere is the same amount as the energy that exits Earth's atmosphere, the average global temperatures will ____________


What is remain the same?

300

Your house losing heat to the outside because your house is TOUCHING the outside air is what type of thermal energy transfer? 

 What is conduction? 

300
What two variables could you increase to increase gravitational potential energy? GPE = mgh

What is mass and gravity? 

300

Which type of countries are most vulnerable to climate change?

What is Developing countries?

300

If more energy is released from Earth's atmosphere than absorbed, the average global temperatures will ____________

What is decrease?
400

Name two of the potential energies:

What is chemical, elastic, nuclear, and gravitational?

400

What is the equation for gravitational potential energy? 

What is GPE: mgh (mass x gravity x height)

400

What are the two energies responsible for creating climate change?

What are light and thermal?

400

If less energy is released from Earth's atmosphere than absorbed, the average global temperatures will ______________

What is increase? 

500

Name two of the kinetic energies:

What is thermal, electrical, magnetic, mechanical

500

What is the gravitational potential energy of a ball that has a mass of 1g, is at a height of 10 m, and gravity is constant at 9.8 m/s2? 

What is 98 joules? 

500
Make a list of all the renewable energies and a list of all the fossil fuels

Renewables: Solar, wind, geothermal, biomass


Fossil Fuels: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas

500
Name the THREE energies a wind turbine uses:  

What is wind, mechanical, and electrical.

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