Examples of
Things You Should Know
Energy
Energy Transformations
Factors
100
A car rolling down a hill.
What is an example of kinetic energy?
100
Energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
100
Increasing the speed of the can caused the modeling clay to be compacted more.
How does speed affect the amount of kinetic energy in a moving object?
100
Chemical energy transforms into thermal energy and light energy.
What is the energy transformation of a burning candle?
100
Speed and mass
What are the factors that determine how much kinetic energy an object has?
200
A roller coaster sitting on top of a hill.
What is an example of gravitational energy?
200
The name given to the kinetic energy of nanoscopic particles moving randomly within a material.
What is thermal energy?
200
Potential energy is energy waiting to go into motion. Kinetic energy is energy in motion.
What is the difference between potential and kinetic?
200
Chemical transforms into kinetic energy and thermal energy.
What is the energy transformation in the Human body?
200
Elevation and mass
What are the factors that determine how much gravitational energy an object has?
300
Large amount of water with a temperature of 30ºC.
What is an example of thermal energy?
300
What involves elastic energy?
300
The law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed?
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
300
Kinetic energy is transformed to elastic energy and back to kinetic, with some thermal and sound energy transferred to the surroundings.
How does the rolling can work?
300
Temperature and mass (and type of substance)
What are the factors that determine how much thermal energy an object has?
400
This happens to the kinetic energy of the first domino when it hits the second domino.
What is an example of energy transfer?
400
Kinetic energy decreases as ........decreases?
What is speed or mass?
400
Gravitational energy is transformed to kinetic energy and back to gravitational, with some energy transferred as thermal energy to the surroundings.
How does a swinging pendulum work?
400
Chemical Energy transforms into thermal energy and light energy.
What is the energy transformation in a campfire?
400
Mass and type of substance
What are the factors that determine how much chemical energy an object has?
500
Sound Navigation and Ranging (SONAR)
What is an example of ultrasound?
500
The kinetic energy of particles moving back and forth in a coordinated manner.
What is sound?
500
Electrical energy (from a battery) is transformed to kinetic energy, which is slowly lost to the surroundings as thermal energy.
How does the "Secret" Top work?
500
What is GE transforms into KE transforms into EE transforms into KE transforms into GE?
500
Both are associated with waves and can be viewed both as a type of energy and a way to transfer energy.
What is similar between sound energy and light energy?