Forms & Types of Energy

All About Energy!

100

Energy is the ability to...

make things move or change. 

200

What goes into something:

Input

300

Where energy comes from. (Hint: The sun is an example!) 

A source. 

400

Which has more energy: A car or a bicycle? 

Car! 

500

Name 6 forms of energy: 

Possible answers: 

Heat (Thermal) energy

Sound energy

Motion (Kinetic) energy

Solar energy

Chemical energy

Nuclear energy

Light energy

Electrical energy

Vocabulary

100

A group of parts that work together. 

System. 

200

A machine that converts electrical energy to another form of energy

Electrical Device

300

What something can do/A part's main job. 

Function. 

400

Something that changes one form of energy to another:

Converter

500

A device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy:

Wind Turbine

Energy Conversions

100

A change from one form of energy to another

Energy conversion

200

Alarm clocks convert electrical energy into these forms of energy. 

Light energy, sound energy

300

A car converts this form of energy into these forms: 

Chemical energy to motion energy/sound energy/light energy 

400

A solar panel converts light energy into this type of energy:

Electrical energy 

500

Kevin throw a pineapple at the wall and heard a huge SPLAT. What energy conversion happened here? 

Motion to Sound energy 

Energy Sources

100

This renewable source also helps heat the planet. 

Solar 

200

This source can also help you fly a kite. 

Wind 

300

When this source is in motion, it can spin a turbine (Hint: it's not wind!) 

Water 

400

This non-renewable source is taken from deep in the earth and is often used in vehicles

Fossil Fuels 

500

This non-renewable source uses URANIUM that's mined from the ground. 

Nuclear Fuel 

That's so Random

100

The big problem we are trying to solve in Ergstown. 

Why they are having so many blackouts. 

200

Wellington shot a 3 pointer in a basketball game, what two types of energy were used?

Chemical and Motion. 

300

UNC was practicing their parts for The Lion King, Ms. Cincotta could hear them from across the hall! What type of energy allowed for this to happen? 

Sound Energy 

400

This helped the fan spin the other direction during our Solar Panel lab. 

Changing where the wires were connected. 

500

In Ergstown, the hospital still had power because 

It had a different power source.