Vocabulary
What is a push or pull.
What is a force.
A pencil on a table.
What is potential.
Energy that an object has due to its position in a gravitational field.
What is gravitational potential energy.
Energy stored in the bending, stretching, or twisting of an object.
What is elastic potential energy.
Do NOT require a medium to travel
What are electromagnetic waves.
The progressive disturbances that transfer energy.
What are Waves
A rolling ball.
What is kinetic.
Energy that is transmitted through the compression of matter.
What is kinetic sound energy.
Total energy within a substance, measured in units of heat and temperature.
What is thermal kinetic energy.
Move at right angles, or perpendicular to the direction energy travels.
What are transverse waves.
What is an electric current that reverses its direction within a circuit at regular cycles.
What is Alternating Current
A rollercoaster traveling down hill.
What is kinetic.
Energy of motion that is attributed to a specific object.
What is mechanical kinetic energy.
Energy stored within magnetic fields that can be seen in the attraction or repulsion of objects.
What is magnetic potential energy.
Coal, Oil, & Natural Gas
What are fossil fuels
A large, fan-like structure used to capture wind energy.
What is a wind-turbine
What is potential energy?
What is stored energy.
Energy associated with the movement of charges.
What is electrical energy.
Energy stored within the chemical bonds of a substance.
What is chemical energy.
A measure of human impact based upon the generation of carbon-based greenhouse gases.
What is our carbon footprint.
An explosion on the sun.
What is a CME.
What is kinetic energy?
What is the energy of movement.
Energy that travels in waves and can travel in a vacuum.
What is electromagnetic kinetic energy.
Energy stored in subatomic matter.
What is nuclear energy.
renewable, carbon-based energy source derived from biomass.
What are biofuels.