Vocabulary
Forms of energy
Energy Transformations
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 to radiant/thermal
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/gravitational potential energy
200
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
What is mechanical to electrical
300
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of 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
400

When kinetic or potential energy are associated with the motion or position of an object (total KE + PE)

What is mechanical energy 

400

You and your brother are racing a toy car and a toy truck down a ramp at your house. The toy car has a mass of 10kg and the toy truck has a mass of 25kg. Which car will have more kinetic energy and finish at the bottom of the ramp first?

What is the truck has more mass and therefore more kinetic energy and will finish first. 

400

What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning a popper inside out and then letting it go 

What is potential to kinetic

500

Form of potential energy that is stored in chemical bonds between atoms

What is chemical 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 occurs in the following scenario: cooking food on a grill 

What is chemical energy (from the propane) to thermal energy (heating the food)

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