Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Equations
Scientific Argumentation
Energy Sources
100
Energy when it is stored in an object
What is potential energy?
100
Energy when an object is in motion
What is kinetic energy?
100
The unit for energy
What is joules?
100
Explains what you know or what do you think will happen based on your observations (AKA your hypothesis)
What is the claim?
100
The ability to do work
What is energy?
200
Causes an increase in potential energy
What is the effect of high mass and high height on energy?
200
Energy when an object gets warm
What is thermal energy?
200
1/2 x m x v^2
What is the equation for kinetic energy?
200
Explains how you know something (the facts)
What is the evidence?
200
Energy is not ____ or ____
What is created and destroyed?
300
Where plants get their energy
What is the sun?
300
Energy from burning wood or digesting food
What is chemical energy?
300
m x g x h
What is the equation for potential energy?
300
Explains how evidence supports the claim (claim + evidence)
What is the reasoning?
300
The energy when a rubber band is stretched, then let go
What is elastic energy?
400
The distance from the object being held and the floor
What is height?
400
Energy when atoms in an element are split apart
What is nuclear energy?
400
The weight of an object
What is mass?
400
Combination of claim, evidence, and reasoning
What is a scientific explanation?
400
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole to transfer and convert energy
What is a system?
500
The force that attracts the object to the center of the earth (causes objects to fall)
What is gravity?
500
Causes an increase in kinetic energy
What is the effect of a high mass and high velocity on energy?
500
The speed of an object going in one direction
What is velocity?
500
The parts of scientific argumentation
What are claim, evidence, and reasoning?
500
When energy is transformed or changed
What is "convert"?
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