Kinetic/Potential Energy
Forms of Energy
Changes in Energy
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Mechanical Waves
100
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
100
Energy carried by electricity.
What is electrical energy?
100
In this energy transformation, plants use energy from the sun to store energy in sugar molecules.
What happens when electromagnetic energy is transformed into chemical energy?
100
This type of energy has the smallest wavelength of all.
What are gamma rays?
100
The distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
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
In this energy transformation, a calculator uses energy from the sun to make electricity.
What happens when electromagnetic energy is transformed into electric energy.
200
This part of the spectrum is used to communicate over long distances.
What are radio waves?
200
These rapid back and forth motion of air or other matter cause waves.
What are vibrations?
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 thermal energy.
What happens when.... name your own examples here.
300
This object can take visible white light and refract it into the colors of the spectrum.
What is a prism?
300
This is the number of waves passing a given point in one second.
What is frequency?
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 chemical energy being transformed into thermal energy?
What happens when.... name your own examples.
400
This part of the spectrum can be used to kill germs. In people, it can cause sunburn, wrinkling, and skin cancer.
What are ultraviolet rays?
400
One wavelength of this type of wave has one compression and one rarefaction.
What are longitudinal waves?
500
When you add the total kinetic and potential energy an object has, you get this.
What is mechanical energy?
500
Energy of the movement of atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
500
In these TWO energy transformations, nuclei of atoms are split in a power plant. The heat produced turns water into steam, and the steam makes a turbine spin.
What happens when nuclear energy is transformed into thermal energy, which is transformed into mechanical energy?
500
This part of the spectrum has the most energy. It can be used to preserve some foods by killing organisms that cause the food to spoil.
What are gamma rays?
500
These two wave characteristics have an inverse relationship - when one increases, the other decreases.
What are wavelength and frequency OR wavelength and energy?
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