Kinetic/Potential Energy
Forms of Energy
Energy Transfer
100
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
100

Energy carried by electricity.

What is electrical energy?

100

Electricity is produced in hydroelectric plant when moving water turns a turbine.  Describe the energy transformation from the turning turbine to electricity. 

Kinetic to electrical energy

200
A force (a push or pull) applied to an object which forces the object to move.
What is work?
200
Energy an object has due to its motion, position or condition.
What is mechanical energy?
200

What is the law of conservation of energy

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. 

300
The energy any object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
Energy formed when an atom splits apart or when two atoms join to form one.
What is nuclear energy?
300

The breaking of ________ bonds in food releases energy for your body to use.

Chemical 

400
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position.
What is potential energy?
400
Energy stored in the way atoms are connected to each other.
What is chemical energy?
400

Electromagnetics energy travels through space in the form of 

waves

500
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy is changed into this.
What is kinetic energy?
500
Energy of the movement of atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
500

The total potential and kinetic energy of the particles of an object is the object's ______________

mechanical energy

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