Greatest at the top of the first hill as you go up a roller coaster.
What is potential energy?
100
Water in a reservoir behind a dam?
What is hydropower?
200
West Virginia, Kentucky, Wyoming
What are the top coal producing states?
200
Radiation
What is transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves?
200
An object acted upon by a net force will accelerate in the direction of the force, and that the acceleration equals the net force divided by the object's mass.
What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?
200
Potential energy converts into movement.
What is kinetic energy?
200
Fusion of hydrogen into helium.
What is solar power?
300
Montana's relationship to the Missouri River.
What is the start of the Missouri River?
300
Conductor
What is material in which electrons can move easily or material that transfers heat easily.
300
States that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred.
What is Law of Conservation of Energy?
300
Resistance to change in direction?
What is inertia?
300
Uneven heating and cooling of the Earth's surface.
What is wind?(convection current?)
400
Rubber
What is a good insulator?
400
Hypothesis
What is prediction or statement that can be tested?
400
States that forces always act in equal but opposite pairs.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
400
Equals the change in velocity divided by the time for the change to take place
What is acceleration?
400
Thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
500
Fuse
What is used to prevent overload on a circuit that might cause a fire?
500
Ion
What is a negatively or positively charged atom that has gained or lost an electron?
500
States that the current in a circuit equals the voltage divided by resistance in circuit.
What is Ohm's Law.
500
Equals the total distance traveled by the total time taken to travel the distance.
What is average speed?
500
Three example of fossil fuels.
What is petroleum, oil, coal, propane, natural gas?