Types of Energy
Mechanical Energy
Simple Machines
Complex Machines
Everything Else
100
It is the transfer of thermal energy.
What is heat energy?
100
It is stored energy.
What is potential energy?
100
This is a rigid bar or board that is free to move around a fixed point.
What is a lever?
100
These consist of two or more simple machines.
What are complex machines?
100
These can be used to convert solar energy to electrical energy.
What are solar cells?
200
It is the energy from the Sun, which provides heat and light for Earth.
What is solar energy?
200
It is the energy an object has due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
200
The fixed point is called this.
What is fulcrum?
200
The complex machine consisting of two levers and two inclined planes.
What are sissors?
200
Wood that is burning, the sun, candle that is burning.
What is heat energy?
300
It is energy stored in particles of matter.
What is chemical energy?
300
It states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
300
This has a grooved wheel with a rope running along the groove.
What is a pulley?
300
This complex machine consist of two circular objects: a central shaft inserted through the middle of a wheel.
What is wheel and axle?
300
Stored chemical energy in batteries, solar energy in solar cells, fuels or hydroelectric energy in gernerators.
What is electrical energy?
400
It is the energy flowing in an electric circuit.
What is electrical energy?
400
The water behind a dam would have this kind of energy.
What is potential?
400
This is a sloping surface that reduces the amount of force required to lift an object.
What is an inclined plane?
400
This consist of levers, wheel and axles, and a number of screws.
What is a bicycle?
400
Can be released in batteries or sugar/food when these particles react to form new substances.
What is chemical energy?
500
It is the energy due to the motion and position of an object.
What is mechanical energy?
500
When a rollarcoaster sits at the top, it has this kind of energy. When he starts down the hill, it has this kind of energy.
What is potential then kinetic?
500
These are the three types of pulleys.
What is fixed, movable, or combined?
500
This consist of a lever, a wheel and axle, and a pulley.
What is a fishing pole?
500
It means to apply a force to an object over a distance and the object moves in responce to the force.
What is work?
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