Energy Vocabulary
The ability to do work or cause change.
what is ENERGY?
What are the 2 factors that affect kinetic energy?
what is SPEED and MASS?
A type of potential energy stored in the nucleus.
what is NUCLEAR ENERGY?
The energy of electric charge.
what is ELECTRICAL ENERGY?
Power and work are expressed in units using the letter J. What does the J stand for ? It is the SI unit for energy.
what is JOULES?
A push or pull exerted on an object.
What is FORCE?
A form of energy produced by vibrations.
what is SOUND ENERGY?
Food stores energy to fuel our bodies to transfer into mechanical energy. What type of energy does the food we store?
what is CHEMICAL ENERGY?
Power plants uses what type of energy the generate electricity to power our homes, schools, and gyms?
what is NUCLEAR ENERGY?
Force x Distance = ?
What is WORK?
A force exerted on an object that causes it to move.
what is WORK?
Energy that travels in waves. It is a form of electromagnetic radiation and travels in a straight path.
what is LIGHT ENERGY?
Stretching a rubber band and aiming at an object is what type of potential energy?
what is ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY?
Kinetic Energy + Potential Energy = ?
what is MECHANICAL ENERGY?
What does the root word THERM mean?
what is HEAT?
What is the Law of Conservation Energy?
what is ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED NOR DESTROYED?
A form of kinetic energy that travels through space waves.
what is ELCTROMAGNETIC RADIATION?
A charged battery is an example of what kind of energy?
what is CHEMICAL ENERGY?
The total kinetic and potential energy of all the particles of an object.
what is THERMAL ENERGY?
What are the two factors that affect POTENTIAL energy?
what is position and distance?
The state in which one objects distance from another is changing.
what is MOTION?
Why is a television considered a form of kinetic energy?
what is SOUND, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION?
An apple sitting high in the tree is what type of potential energy ?
what is GRAVITAIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY?
Kinetic or Potential Energy associated with the motion or position of an object
what is MECHANICAL ENERGY?
Which type of nuclear reactions takes place inside the sun ?
Nuclear Fusion