Types of Energy
Energy Forms
Energy Trans...
Energy Examples
Define Me
100

Stored energy due to the interaction between particles and objects.

What is potential energy?

100

Describe heat energy.

Thermal energy

100

Explain the energy transformation in a curling iron.

What is electric to heat to thermal energy?

100

Explain the energy transformation found in photosynthesis?

anything electrical

100

The ability to cause change or to do work.

What is energy?

200

Energy stored in and released from the bonds between atoms.

What is chemical energy?

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.

What is electric to acoustic to thermal energy?

200
Give an example of thermal energy.
Anything with heat
200

Energy due to motion.

What is .... kinetic energy?

300

Energy carried by electromagnetic waves.

What is radiant energy?

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

The distance an object moves per unit of time.

What is speed?

400

The energy caused by motion.

What is kinetic energy?

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

The change of state from a liquid to a gas.

What is vaporization?

500

The sum of potential energy and kinetic energy in a system.

What is mechanical energy?

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

Energy can be transformed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.

What is the law of conservation of energy?

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