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A type of energy stored by position from ground.
What is gravitational potential energy?
100
Coal, petroleum and natural gas are very good examples of this. Name it.
What are non-renewable resources.
100
This type of energy comes from the sun.
What is solar energy?
100
Energy is ___________________.
What is the ability to do work or cause change?
100
A 5 Newton object is moved up to a 6 meter high shelf. What was the work done?
What is 30 Joules?
200
The type of energy describing something in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
200
Stored energy that is a result of one's temperature
What is thermal energy
200
The type of energy transfer when you touch a stove.
What is conduction.
200
A change from one form of energy to another is called ____________.
What is an energy conservation.
200
A 12-N object is pushed across a room with a length of 12 meters. If this is done in 30 seconds, what is the Power exerted?
What is 4.8 Watts?
300
What is heat?
The transfer of energy from objects of higher temperature to lower temperature.
300
The two ways you can increase power.
What is increase work done or decrease time.
300
Travels through space in the form of waves.
What is radiation.
300
The specific heat of an object determines _____________.
The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature 1 degree Celsius of a 1 gram object.
300
A 10 kg object is moving at 5 m/s. What is its kinetic energy?
What is 125 J?
400
A form of energy that is in a stretched rubber band?
What is elastic potential energy?
400
When friction occurs, this kinetic energy turns into this type of energy.
What is thermal energy.
400
In relation to a swinging pendulum (side to side), this point has the most kinetic energy which also means NO potential energy.
What is at the bottom of the pendulum swing?
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Temperature is ________________.
What is a measure of an object's internal energy.
400
An object rests 50 meters above the ground. It has a mass of 8 kg, what is its Potential energy?
What is 3920 Joules?
500
How do you define the Law of Conservation of Energy?
What is a law that states that energy can neither be created or destroyed?
500
The transfer of energy from one object to another by the movement of a fluid.
What is convection.
500
This type of object does not allow the flow of energy.
What is an insulator.
500
This is the reason there are cracks placed in sidewalks.
What is Thermal Expansion and Contraction.
500
What is the speed of an object after it drops from 5 meters up, if its mass is 12 kg?
What is 9.9 m/s?
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