Energy possessed by an object or system due to the movement of particles within that object or system.
What is Thermal Energy?
100
The transfer of heat through a liquid or gas.
What is Convection?
100
Padding that helps to keep buildings warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
What is Insulation?
100
Waves of energy used by doctors to create pictures of your bones.
What are X-Rays?
100
The difference between heat and temperature.
What is Temperature measures the speed at which molecules are moving; Heat is energy?
200
This type of energy is "energy in motion".
What is Kinetic Energy?
200
A material or substance that allows energy to flow through it easily.
What is a Conductor?
200
Preventing wasteful use of resources.
What is being Efficient?
200
Waves of energy used by your remote control.
What are Infrared Rays?
200
The temperature at which all molecular motion stops.
What is Absolute Zero?
300
The energy possessed by an object due to its motion or position?
What is Mechanical Energy.
300
The transfer of energy through matter by direct contact.
What is Conduction?
300
How to conserve energy when using electricity.
What is turning lights off when you leave the room, turning the heat down when you are sleeping or leaving the house, and/or unplugging appliances when they are not in use?
300
Produced by the sun; most of this radiation is blocked by the ozone.
What is Ultraviolet Light?
300
The amount of energy an object has due to the speed at which its molecules are moving.
What is Heat Energy?
400
Energy stored in charged particles within an electrical field.
What is Electrical Energy?
400
A material or substance that does NOT allow energy to flow through it easily.
What is an Insulator?
400
A resource that, once you use it, you can't get any more of it.
What is a Non-renewable Resource?
400
Produced by nuclear explosions; do a lot of damage when passed through living cells.
What are Gamma Rays?
400
Molecules absorb this, and it makes them move faster.
What is Energy?
500
This type of energy is not yet in motion but has the potential to be.
What is Potential Energy?
500
The transfer of energy through rays or waves.
What is Radiation?
500
How to conserve energy when doing laundry.
What is using cold water, buying appliances with the Energy Saver Star, and/or hanging clothes to dry rather than using the dryer?
500
Our eyes perceive this as color; produced by natural and unnatural light.
What is Visible Light?
500
The condition in which all acting forces are balanced or canceled by equal opposing forces.