Vocabulary
The ability to do work or cause change
What is energy
Energy stored in chemical bonds
What is chemical energy
The energy of just motion
What is kinetic energy
Energy of motion, position and shape
What is mechanical energy
Energy transformation that occurs to raise your hand (one arrow)
Chemical --> Mechanical
Exerting a force on an object to cause it to move
What is work
Energy that travels through space in waves
What is electromagnetic energy
Energy due to the shape or position of an object
What is potential energy
No machine is 100% efficient because
Some mechanical energy is changed to thermal energy due to friction
Energy Transformation needed to boil water on an electric stove (one arrow)
Electrical --> Thermal
The rate at which energy is transferred
What is power
If you have a bowling bowl, basketball, and a tennis ball which ball have more kinetic energy
What is Bowling ball
The type of energy that is described by the motion of the atoms or molecule in something
What is thermal energy
States that energy is not created nor destroyed
What is Law of conservation of energy
Energy transformation needed for you to see a star (one arrow)
Nuclear --> Electromagnetic
Change from one form of energy to another form
Energy transformation
The form of energy that travels as waves through gases, liquids and solids
What is sound energy
Energy of electric charges
What is electrical energy
What are the seven types of energy
What is chemical, electrical, electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical, sound, nuclear
Energy transformation needed in a coal burning power plant (three arrows)
Chemical --> Thermal --> Mechanical --> Electrical
A series of transformation where energy changes from one type to another and then another
What is multiple transformations
Type of nuclear energy where the nucleus of an atom is split
What is fission
Energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy
When energy is transformed from one form to another
What is energy transformation
Energy transformation needed to for someone to sweat during exercise. (Start with the sun. Four arrows)
Nuclear --> Electromagnetic --> Chemical --> Mechanical --> Thermal