Vocabulary
Forms of energy
Energy Transformations
Random
100
Form of energy due to its motion
What is kinetic
100
If a 6th grade student eats a pancake for breakfast and then walks to school. What form of energy was the pancake?
What is chemical
100

What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight

What is chemical or electrical to heat or thermal

100

What is needed to do work or cause change

Energy

200
Form of energy due to its position and shape
What is potential energy
200

If you are riding a roller coaster what form of energy increases as you go up the roller coaster?

What is potential potential energy

200
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
What is mechanical to electrical
200

Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum upon contact

What is sound Energy

300

Cannot be created or destroyed

 Energy

300
A student is cold while she waits outside for the bus so she decides to rub her hands together. What form of energy is her mechanical energy being converted into?
What is heat/thermal energy
300
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: eating an apple and then going to the gym to work out
What is chemical to mechanical and thermal
300

What is the energy transformation when turning on a stove?

What is electrical to heat and light energy

400

When one form of energy converts into another form

What is energy transformation

400
You and your brother are racing a toy car and a toy truck down a ramp at your house. Your brother picks the car because he loves to go fast. You predict that the truck will win down the ramp. Explain why your prediction would be right assuming they are going the same speed and there are no other factors or forces at work?
What is the truck has more mass and therefore more kinetic energy
400

What type of energy transformation is happening when turning on a microwave?

What is electrical to heat, sound, light, and mechanical

400

Energy that allows us to see

Energy that allows us to see.

500

Energy resulting from the flow of electric charge through a conductor

What is Electrical Energy


500
If you and a friend are going down two different slides, but the slide your friend is on is 100 ft in the air and the one you are on is 50 feet, which one of you would have more potential energy?
What is your friend
500

What type of energy transformation is happening when a lamp is turned on 

What is electrical to light and thermal

500

How an object moves from one place to another

What is motion

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