Types of Energy
Energy Forms
Energy
Energy Examples
Mystery ?s
100
Describe potential energy.
Potential energy is stored energy.
100
Describe heat energy.
Thermal energy
100
Explain the energy transformation in a curling iron.
electric to heat to thermal
100
Give an example of electric energy.
anything electrical
100
How many paths does a parallel circuit contain.
More than one.
200
Describe a characteristic of a chemical change.
Formation of a new substance, heat or bubbling, fizzing.
200
Identify what type of energy are x-rays.
Radiant energy (part of the electromagnetic spectrum)
200
Identify the energy transformation in an electric radio
electric to acoustic to thermal
200
Give an example of thermal energy.
Anything with heat
200
What is a closed circuit?
A circuit that allows electricity to flow through it.
300
Describe the energy transformation found in a battery.
chemical to electrical to heat
300
Identify what happens to the potential energy in a roller coaster car when it moves from the top of the biggest hill to the bottom of the biggest hill?
It changes from most potential (top of biggest hill) to the most kinetic energy (bottom of biggest hill).
300
Boiling water produces steam used to power a boat is an example of what transformations?
Heat energy to mechanical energy
300
Give an example of nuclear energy.
Anything with uranium or nuclear power (plant) or atomic bomb.
300
How many paths of electricity does a series circuit have?
One
400
Explain the energy transformation found in photosynthesis?
Radiant (light-sun) to chemical (sugar is made)
400
When water evaporates, identify what type of change is taking place?
A physical change.
400
Explain the energy transformation in a skier going down a hill.
Potential to gravitational to kinetic to heat
400
Give an example of gravitational energy.
Energy due to position or height.
400
What is the primary source of energy used to warm houses when we used solar panels on the roofs of houses?
Radiant (light, sun) energy
500
What is the energy transformation found in a hand-held battery-operated fan?
Chemical to electrical to heat to mechanical to heat
500
State the Conservation of energy law.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be changed, or transformed.
500
What is the Conservation of Mass Law?
The Conservation of Mass Law states that during an ordinary chemical reaction, there is no detectable increase or decrease in mass in the quantity of the matter.
500
Give an example of a chemical change and a physical change and state why each is why it is such.
chemical-new substance physical-change in size, shape or state of matter
500
If we watered one plant with tap water and another with salt water everyday for a week. Generate a hypothesis for this experiment. (Both given the same amount, at the same temperature, at the same time, same lighting, etc...)
How does salt water affect plant growth?
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