Kinetic/Potential Energy
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
negatively charged electrons that move along a circuit are this type of energy.
What is electrical energy?
Plants use the sun's energy for this.
What is photosynthesis?
This is a type of energy that travels in waves and in a straight path. Can travel through space.
What is light energy?
This type of energy is produced by the vibrations of matter.
What is sound energy?
A force (a push or pull) applied to an object which forces the object to move.
What is work?
Energy an object has due to its movement, position or condition.
What is mechanical energy?
Give an example of solar energy being changed to electrical energy
Solar powered calculator or solar panels on a house that bring electricity to the house.
Energy of moving molecules such as rubbing hands together
Thermal or heat energy.
Rapid back and forth motion of air or other matter.
What are vibrations?
Mechanical energy that is in motion
What is kinetic energy?
The type of energy stored in a battery.
What is chemical/electrical energy?
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to light energy.
What is a lamp?
This is a good example of heat and light energy happening at the same time.
A campfire, a fire, the sun.
The states of matter sound can travel through.
What are solids, liquids and gases?
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position. Like a roller coaster car sitting at the top of the hill.
What is potential energy?
Energy examples are these:
a bird eating
a car going down the highway
a boy writing
a whale chasing its prey
Mechanical energy
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to thermal energy.
What are ovens, hair dryer, an iron and many others?
Increased friction can cause more of this type of energy.
What is heat energy?
Bats and whales use sound and this E word to find prey and each other.
What are echolocation?
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy is changed into this.
What is kinetic energy?
Energy types:
the sun
a candle
a light bulb
a flashlight
What is light energy?
This is an example of electrical energy changing to mechanical energy.
Pencil sharpener, remote control car, Tesla, a fan and many more.
The two types of energy that have conductors and insulators.
What are electrical and thermal?
Most instruments use this energy in order to make sound energy.
What is mechanical energy?