Vocabulary
Forms of energy
Energy Transformations
Heat Transfer
Do you recall?
100
Form of energy due to its motion
What is kinetic
100
If a 6th grade student eats a pancake for breakfast and then walks to school. What form of energy was the pancake?
What is chemical
100
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight
What is chemical to radiant/thermal
100

Heat travels from

what is hot to cold?

100

Define compound

What is made up of more than one atom

200
Form of energy due to its position and shape
What is potential energy
200
If you are riding a roller coaster what form of energy increases as you go up the roller coaster?
What is potential/gravitational potential energy
200

What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning

What is mechanical to electrical

200

Some ice cubes are added to a pot of boiling water. After a few moments, the water stops boiling. Which of the following explains why the water stopped boiling?

  1. Heat energy from the water melted the ice.

  2. Particles from the boiling water moved into the ice and melted the ice. 

  3. Cold energy from the ice transferred into the water, lowering the temperature of the water. 

  4. Cold energy leaving the ice caused it to melt. 

What is 1. heat energy from the water melted the ice?

200

The Mitochondria of a cell is known as the _____of the cell

What is the powerhouse

300
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of energy
300

If you and a friend are going down two different slides, but the slide your friend is on is 100 ft in the air and the one you are on is 50 feet, which one of you would have more potential energy?

What is your friend

300
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: eating an apple and then going to the gym to work out
What is chemical to mechanical and thermal
300

Convection Currents are caused by 

Hot air rising and cold are sinking

300

Give an example of a physical change?

What is ripping paper, breaking glass, sharpening a pencil

400
when one form of energy converts into another form
What is energy transformation
400

You and your brother are racing a toy car and a toy truck down a ramp at your house. Your brother picks the car because he loves to go fast. You predict that the truck will win down the ramp. Explain why your prediction would be right assuming they are going the same speed and there are no other factors or forces at work?

What is the truck has more mass and therefore more kinetic energy

400

Trever wants his toy train to be able to make it up a hill but he does not know anything about potential and kinetic energy. Explain to Trever what he could do to to get his train up the hill. Hint: explain what he would have to do with the potential and kinetic energy

What is create a ramp to increase the potential energy which will convert to more kinetic energy when released giving it enough energy to get up the hill.

400

Give an example of heat transfer by radiation?

What is putting your hand by the back of an iron

Getting a sunburn while at the beach

Sand warming on a beach

400

When conducting a Ph lab, Cindy noticed the litmus paper turned red for one substance and blue for another. What does the red litmus paper indicate? What does the blue litmus paper indicate?

What is red is an acid. What is blue is a base

500
Form of potential energy that is due to its height
What is gravitational potential
500

A student is cold while she waits outside for the bus so she decides to rub her hands together. What form of energy is her mechanical energy being converted into?

What type of heat transfer is rubbing her hands together?

What is heat/thermal energy

What is Conduction

500

You run an experiment to see in the number of washers effects the amount of times a pendulum will swing until friction will eventually cause it to stop. What is the independent variable in this scenario?

What is number of washers

500

If two of these objects are placed together in a container so the objects are touching; One is 75 degrees and the other 13 degrees. How heat would flow between the objects?

What is heat will flow hot to cold i.e. the object that is 75 degrees will flow into the object that is 13 degrees.

500

Jenny took a trip to Jupiter but before leaving she weighted 100 pounds and had a mass of 25g. When arriving to Jupiter she noticed a change. Which of the following changed (mass, weight or both)? explain if it increased or decreased and how. 

What is weight will increase due to the gravitational force. 

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