Kinetic/Potential Energy
The ability to do to cause change in matter or to do work.
What is energy?
Energy carried by electrical current.
What is electrical energy?
This is an example of light energy being changed to chemical energy. Hint: plants do this.
What is photosynthesis?
This is a type of energy that travels in waves and can travel through empty space.
What is light energy?
This type of energy is produced by the vibrations of matter. These vibrations can move through solid, liquid or gaseous matter, but they cannot travel through empty space.
What is sound energy?
A (a push or pull) applied to an object which makes the object move.
What is force?
Energy an object has due to its motion, position or condition. A combination of potential and kinetic energy.
What is mechanical energy?
This is an example of light energy being changed to electrical energy.
What is a solar powered lamp?
The distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
Rapid back and forth motion of air or other matter.
What are vibrations?
The energy any object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Energy formed when an atom splits apart or when two atoms join to form one.
What is nuclear energy?
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to light energy.
What is a lamp?
This object can take visible white light and separate it into the colors of the spectrum.
What is a prism?
The number of waves passing a given point in one second.
What is frequency?
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position.
What is potential energy?
Energy stored in the way atoms are waiting to be released. Food has this.
What is chemical energy?
This is an example of light energy being changed to thermal energy.
What are solar panels?
This type of radiant energy can be used to kill germs. In people, it can cause sunburn, wrinkling, and skin cancer.
What are ultraviolet rays?
Animals that use a high frequency sounds under water to communicate over long distances.
What are Whales?
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy is changed into this.
What is kinetic energy?
Energy of the movement of atoms and molecules. You can feel this energy when you burn a log.
What is thermal energy?
This is an example of chemical energy being changed to thermal energy and then to mechanical energy and finally to electrical energy.
What is a power plant?
When light travels through water it slows down and causing objects to look bent.
What is refraction?
The sound you will hear if you tighten the strings on a piano.
What is lower?