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

Energy carried by electricity.

What is electrical energy?

100

This is an example of radiant energy being changed to chemical energy.

What is photosynthesis?

100

This is a type of energy that travels in waves and can travel through empty space.

What is radiant 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

This is an example of radiant energy being changed to electrical energy.

What is a solar powered calculator?

200

Radiant energy that comes from the sun is known as __________ energy.

Solar

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

This is an example of electrical energy being changed to radiant energy.

What is a lamp?

300

This object converts electrical energy to radiant energy but gives off heat energy in the process.

light bulb 

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

This is an example of radiant energy being changed to thermal energy.

What are solar panels?

400

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?

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

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?

500

This type of radiant energy can be used to preserve some foods by killing organisms that cause the food to spoil.

What are gamma rays?

500

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

mechanical energy

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