Vocabulary 1
Which is stored energy: food, light, heat, or electricity
The change or movement of energy from one form to another is: (not converted)
transfer
A car driving down the high converts motion energy to what type of energy?
Motion
This does work and makes things happen:
energy
Sources
Energy that waits to be used when work needs to be done.
Stored
When plants convert solar energy into sugar it is known as:
Photosynthesis
A repeating movement, like up and down, or back and forth
waves
What are two examples of fuels:
wood, gas, oil, coal, wax
Plants change (convert) light energy into what kind of energy?
chemical
Energy stored in fuel, batteries, and food.
Chemical
In a D-Cell circuit with a lightbulb, chemical energy is converted to what type of energy?
light energy
The remains of plants that lived long ago and store energy:
fossil fuels
Kinley said her car get its energy from the sun. Harper said that her car gets energy from gasoline. Who is right?
Both of them
A car driving converts chemical energy to what kind of energy?
motion
What are the three fossil fuels:
oil, coal, natural gas
Which is a fossil fuel: petroleum, food, wood, batteries
petroleum
Animals convert stored energy into what 2 forms of energy?
Heat and motion
What two forms of energy do we get from the sun?
light and heat
What are the only living things that can change the sun's energy into chemical energy?
plants
Through what is energy transferred in a slinky (think of our water experiment)
waves
What type of fuel do animals use to survive?
We conducted an experiment that demonstrated energy stored in muscles converting into heat energy. Which experiment was it?
Rubbing our hands together
Where can energy be stored? List three locations.
batteries, muscles, food, fuel, sun
What are four forms of energy:
light, heat, motion, electricity, sound, solar, chemical