What is Energy?
Forms of Energy
Energy Transformations and Conservation
Energy and Fossil Fuels
Extra
100
The transfer of energy.
What is work?
100
Kinetic energy plus potential energy.
What is mechanical energy?
100
A change from one form of energy to another.
What is an energy transformation?
100
Naturally occurring fuels found inside the earth that contain high amounts of potential energy.
What are fossil fuels?
100
The sunlight you see each day is a form of this.
What is electromagnetic energy?
200
Energy transferred divided by time.
What is power?
200
Energy associated with fast-moving particles.
What is thermal energy?
200
A toaster transforms ____ energy to ____ energy.
What is electrical to thermal?
200
The source of energy for most of Earth's processes.
What is the sun?
200
A skier weighing 600 newtons has more of this than a skier weighing 500 newtons at the same height.
What is gravitational potential energy?
300
The two basic kinds of energy.
What are kinetic energy and potential energy?
300
The energy of electric charges.
What is electrical energy?
300
Your body transforms the ____ energy in food to ____ energy when swinging a tennis racquet.
What is chemical to mechanical?
300
The process of burning fuels to use their energy.
What is combustion?
300
The type of potential energy an object gains when it is stretched.
What is elastic potential energy?
400
1/2 x Mass x Velocity x Velocity
What is kinetic energy?
400
Energy stored in the foods you eat, matches used to light candles, cells in your body, and more.
What is chemical energy?
400
A cell phone transforms ____ energy to ____ energy.
What is electrical to electromagnetic?
400
Burning fossil fuels produces ____ which has enough pressure to turn a ____.
What are steam and turbine.
400
At this point a pole vaulter has the most gravitational potential energy.
What is the highest point of the vault?
500
Weight x Height
What is gravitational potential energy?
500
Energy related to the processes of fission (splitting) and fusion (joining) the central part of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
500
States that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
500
The mechanical energy of spinning turbines in a power plant is transferred to an electric _____ which creates electrical energy.
What is a generator?
500
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
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