A combination of an objects potential and kinetic energy.
What is mechanical energy
100
Using a hair dryer transforms electrical energy to this type of energy.
What is thermal energy
100
The law of conservation of energy states this.
What is energy cannot be created or destroyed.
100
Factors that affect the kinetic energy of an object.
What is mass and velocity
200
Energy in motion
What is kinetic energy
200
The total potential and kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is thermal energy
200
You experience these types of energy transformations when you strike a match.
What is chemical, thermal, electromagnetic.
200
What happens to the energy of a basketball when it comes to a stop spinning on your finger?
It is transferred to thermal energy.
200
fusion and fission are two types of this kind of energy.
What is nuclear energy
300
Stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object.
What is potential energy
300
This type of energy passes through space as waves.
What is electromagnetic energy
300
Coal is a type of energy that is made up of ancient plants and animals. Inside the coal is stored chemical energy. The coal received its energy from the sun. What is the type of energy released from the sun that the plants and animals store?
What is electromagnetic?
300
What causes the transfer of kinetic energy to thermal of a basketball spinning on a finger?
what is friction
300
This has the greatest affect on kinetic energy.
What is velocity
400
Potential energy related to an objects height.
What is gravitational potential energy
400
Potential energy stored in the chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together.
What is chemical energy
400
A pole-vaulter experiences these types of energy transformations when pole-vaulting. List them in order.
What is kinetic energy, elastic potential energy, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy.
400
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter.
400
This type of nuclear energy is used in nuclear power plants to provide electricity to our houses.
What is nuclear fission.
500
Potential energy associated with objects that an be stretched or compressed.
What is elastic potential energy
500
The type of energy you experience when you rub your feet on the floor and touch a metal doorknob.
What is electrical energy
500
When you put a rock in a sling shot and send it flying across the room, these two types of energy are present in the sling shot and the rock.
What is elastic potential energy and kinetic energy.
500
Thermal energy is produces when a firefighter slides down a pole. Where does it come from
What is friction
500
What makes lava so hot?
The particles that make up lava have a lot of kinetic energy, therefore they release a lot of thermal energy.