Kinetic/Potential Energy
Forms of Energy
Changes in Energy
Radiant Energy
Sound Energy
100
What is energy?
The ability to do work
100
Energy carried by electricity.
What is electrical energy?
100
This is an example of radiant energy being changed to chemical energy in a plant.
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
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?
200
Gravitational energy is a form of _________ energy
Potential
200
Energy an object has due to its motion or the work it is doing.
What is mechanical energy?
200
This is an example of radiant energy being changed to electrical energy.
What is a solar
200
The distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
200
Rapid back and forth motion of air or other matter.
What are vibrations?
300
The energy any object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
Energy that is formed from two charged particles.
What is electrical energy?
300
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to radiant energy.
What is a lamp?
300
This object can take visible white light and separate it into the colors of the spectrum.
What is a prism?
300
The faster the vibrations, the ______ the pitch.
higher
400
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position.
What is potential energy?
400
Energy stored in your body.
What is chemical energy?
400
This is an example of electrical energy being changed into vibrational energy.
Answers will vary
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
The slower the vibrations, the ____ the pitch is.
Lower
500
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy is changed into this.
What is kinetic energy?
500
Energy that creates heat energy.
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
Sound waves have kinetic energy.
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