Vocabulary
This is defined as the ability to do work.
What is energy?
The most important source of light energy.
What is the sun?
This is the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
A toaster converts electrical energy into this energy.
What is thermal energy?
When we burn wood in a fire, we are converting this form of potential energy and turning it into heat energy.
What is chemical potential energy?
This is the name given to the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This type of energy is present in a rock at the top of a hill.
What is gravitational potential energy?
This is the name for a type of energy that causes atoms to move quicker.
What is thermal energy or heat energy?
A light bulb converts electrical energy into these two energies
What are light/radiant and heat energies?
What is sound energy?
This is the only source of energy we can actually see.
What is radiant/light energy?
When velocity is doubled, what happens to the amount of kinetic energy?
What is quadruples or multiples by 4?
This is the energy of motion or the energy at work.
What is kinetic energy?
A solar panel transforms ______________ energy into _____________ energy.
What is solar/radiant and electrical?
Explain how energy is transferred when a ball falls from a shelf to the floor.
What is gravitational potential energy transforms to kinetic energy.
This is the name given to the process in which plants turn light energy into food.
What is photosynthesis?
When a radio is plugged in and switched on to listen to music, (this energy) is transformed into (this energy).
What is electrical energy changing into sound energy?
Both of these types of energy produce "waves".
What are sound and radiant/light energy?
A hair dryer transforms (this kind of energy) to (this kind of energy) and (this kind of energy)
What is electrical energy to heat energy and sound energy?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This energy is sometimes called solar energy or light energy.
What is radiant energy?
The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy is never created or destroyed, it is only ________ from one form to another.
What is transformed (or changed)?
The power plant on Lake Murray is this type of power plant.
What is the hydroelectric?
This is the name given to energy an object has due to its motion OR position. The sum of kinetic and potential energy.
What is mechanical energy?
A flashlight converts ____________ energy into ____________ energy then _____________ energy.
What is chemical, electrical, and radiant/light?
What two factors affect kinetic energy the most?
What is mass and velocity.