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Powering the World
100
This is the ability to cause change in matter.
What is energy?
100
This type of energy is stored due to an object’s position or chemical composition.
What is potential energy?
100
This scientific law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
100
This type of energy is stored due to an object’s position or chemical composition.
What is potential energy?
100
The energy we get from the Sun that travels in waves is called this.
What is radiant energy?
100
The type of energy stored in food, batteries, and fuel is called this.
What is chemical potential energy?
100
The three main ways thermal energy is transferred are conduction, convection, and this.
What is radiation?
100
Burning coal to produce electricity transforms this type of stored energy into electrical energy.
What is chemical energy?
200
A skateboarder rolling down a ramp has this type of energy.
What is kinetic energy?
200
A skier standing at the top of a mountain has more of this type of energy than a skier halfway down the slope.
What is (gravitational) potential energy?
200
A lightbulb transforms electrical energy into these two types of energy.
What is thermal energy and radiant energy?
200
A stretched spring has this type of potential energy, while a ball held at the top of a hill has this type.
What is elastic potential energy for the spring and gravitational potential energy for the ball?
200
A moving car and a swinging hammer both have this type of energy.
What is mechanical energy?
200
A stretched rubber band or compressed spring stores this type of energy.
What is elastic potential energy?
200
This type of heat transfer happens when you touch a hot metal spoon in a pot of boiling water.
What is conduction?
200
This type of renewable energy comes from moving air and is used to generate electricity with turbines.
What is wind energy?
300
When a toaster heats up bread, electrical energy is transformed into these two types of energy.
What is thermal energy and radiant (light) energy?
300
When a roller coaster moves from the highest point down toward the lowest, this happens to its potential and kinetic energy. (Increase/Decrease)
What is a decrease of potential energy and an increase of kinetic energy?
300
Plants use this process to transform radiant energy from the Sun into chemical energy stored in food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
The gasoline in a car and the food you eat both store this type of energy, which is released during a reaction.
What is chemical potential energy?
300
The energy stored in the bonds of food and fuel is known as this.
What is chemical energy?
300
A rock sitting on a cliff has this type of stored energy because of its height.
What is gravitational potential energy?
300
The rising and sinking of warm and cool air that creates wind and ocean currents is an example of this type of heat transfer.
What is convection?
300
Solar panels transform this type of energy into electricity.
What is radiant energy (or solar energy)?
400
This type of energy transfer happens when warm air rises, cools, and then sinks, creating a circular motion in a liquid or gas.
What is convection?
400
A student designs an experiment dropping balls of different masses from the same height. They measure how high the balls bounce. What type of data are they collecting?
What is "Does Mass Affect the Amount of potential energy and kinetic energy?"
400
When energy is transferred or transformed, some of it is always lost in this form.
What is thermal (heat) energy?
400
A pendulum swings back and forth. At what point does it have the most kinetic energy, and at what point does it have the most potential energy?
What is the bottom of the swing for kinetic energy and the highest points for potential energy?
400
Name two forms of energy involved when a microwave heats your food.
What are radiant energy and thermal energy?
400
When a stretched bowstring is released, the stored energy is transformed into this type of energy.
What is kinetic energy?
400
Unlike conduction and convection, this type of heat transfer can occur in empty space.
What is radiation?
400
Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear power plants do not release this gas, which is linked to climate change.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
500
In an experiment, a student drops a ball from different heights and measures how high it bounces. This investigates which type of energy transformation?
What is from (gravitational) potential energy to kinetic energy?
500
A scientist creates a model of a stretched rubber band and a compressed spring to compare their energy. What type of potential energy are they modeling?
What is elastic potential energy?
500
A student analyzes data on how energy flows from a battery to an LED light in their CTE keychain. Name the energy transformations in order from the power source to the light being emitted.
What is from chemical (potential) energy to electrical energy (kinetic) to radiant/thermal energy (kinetic)?
500
As a roller coaster moves along its track, how does its energy change?
What is potential energy turning into kinetic energy downhill, kinetic turning back into potential uphill, and some energy lost as heat due to friction?
500
Surrey and North Anna in Virginia are two of these types of power producers.
What is nuclear energy for Dominion Energy?
500
The energy stored in an atom’s nucleus is released in power plants or nuclear explosions through this process.
What is nuclear fission?
500
A student creates a graph showing temperature changes over time for a metal rod heated at one end. The increasing temperature at different points along the rod is evidence of this type of heat transfer.
What is conduction?
500
Hydroelectric power plants use flowing water to spin turbines, generating electricity. Describe the energy transformations that occur in this process.
What is gravitational potential energy → kinetic energy → mechanical energy → electrical energy?