Energy

Energy

100

Energy stored in an object

What is potential energy?

200

A when the blades of this object turns it helps to produce electricity?

What is a turbine?

300

Energy stored at the centre of atoms

What is nuclear energy?

400

A measure of an objects ability to provide useful energy

What is efficiency?

500

Huge magnets inside rotate to produce electricity

What is a generator?

Energy

100

Energy of a moving object

What is kinetic energy?

200

Energy present in foods and fuels

What is chemical potential energy?

300

Energy cannot be created or destroyed

What is the Law of the Conservation of Energy?

400

the unit used to measure amounts of energy

What is a Joule?

500

Coal, oil and natural gas

What are fossil fuels?

Energy

100

The ability to do work

What is energy?

200

Every time energy is transformed from one type to another, some heat energy is lost to the surrounds

What is wasted energy?

300

The vibration and movements of the atoms and molecules within substances

What is heat or thermal energy?

400

The movement of heat in liquids

What is convection?

500

Compressed springs and stretched rubber bands store this

What is elastic potential energy?

Energy

100

A poor conductor of heat

What is an insulator?

200

The chemical energy in a torch is transferred into this useful energy

What is light energy?

300

the movement of electrons

What is electrical energy?

400

A battery contains this type of energy

What is chemical potential energy?

500

Electromagnetic energy travelling in transverse waves

What is radiant energy?

Energy

100

These vibrate when a substance is heated

What is a particle?

200

the particles in this are close together

What is a solid?

300

The area that a pendulum covers as it swings

What is a period?

400

This is usually represented as a percentage

What is efficiency?

500

Most electrical energy in Australia is produced by this

What is a coal burning power station?