Definitions
The distance between peaks of a wave
What is wavelength?
Fossil fuels (the types of)
What are coal, petroleum, and natural gas?
The acronym for remembering the colors of visible light.
What is Roy G. Biv?
A process that fuses two nuclei together.
What is fusion?
Climb to the top of a water slide is an example of this conversion of energy.
What is kinetic energy to potential energy?
Energy an object possesses after being heated
What is thermal energy?
Three alternative fuels (types of).
What are hydro power; geothermal power; solar power; and wind power?
(any three of these is a valid answer)
Red, blue, yellow, indigo, orange, green, violet.
What are the colors of visible light?
A process that splits apart a nucleus.
What is fission?
In a steam engine, heat changes water to steam to move an engine is an example of this conversion of energy.
What is thermal energy to kinetic energy?
Potential energy
What is energy that is stored and can be released by conversion into a different form of energy?
The energy in the gravitational attraction between starts and plants can be compared to this.
What is the energy in a bent bow?
The dual nature of light.
What do we call having the properties of waves and particles?
An uncontrolled form of nuclear fusion.
What is a nuclear weapon?
The sun's infrared rays warm your skin
What is electromagnetic radiation to thermal energy?
Electromagnetic radiation
What are waves (or photons) of pure energy at any wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum?
The types of energy studied in this chapter.
What are potential energy, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, chemical potential energy, thermal energy, and nuclear energy?
The wavelength range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is 1000m (or 1 km) to 0.001 nm (or 1/1000 of a nanometer)?
A controlled form of nuclear energy made in nuclear reactors.
What is fission?
Photosynthesis: a plant changes sunlight to energy-storing glucose molecules
What is electromagnetic radiation to chemical potential energy?
A photon
What is a single quantum (discrete packet) of electromagnetic energy?
The four areas, and possibly fifth, where the majority of the energy of the universe are found.
What are the light of the stars (electromagnetic radiation); the Cosmic Microwave Background; the motion of all the galaxies (kinetic energy); gravity (stored/potential energy); and possibly dark energy?
The electromagnetic spectrum from longest to shortest wave length.
What are AM radio, FM radio, microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, x-rays, gamma rays?
The process that makes the sun's energy.
What is the gravitation of the sun pulling hydrogen atoms together and fusing their nuclei together?
Fire warms you AND brightens the night.
Chemical potential energy to thermal and electromagnetic radiation.