Category 1
Define Potential Energy.
What is the energy that an object has due to its position relative to other objects or its condition?
Define kinetic energy.
What is a form of energy that an object or particle has by its motion?
What does kinetic energy depend on?
What is mass and speed?
Define elastic energy.
What is potential stored in an elastic material?
Give an example of elastic energy.
What is a rubber band, a spring ect?
At what point does an object thrown up in the air have the most potential energy?
What is when it's at its highest point?
At what point does an object thrown up in the air the most kinetic energy?
What is before it hits the ground?
What is the equation for mechanical energy?
What is E=KE+PE?
Define Chemical energy.
What is the energy stored in the bonds of chemical compounds?
Define electromagnetic energy.
What is the energy carried by electromagnetic waves?
Give an example of energy transformation.
What is a flashlight transforms chemical from batteries into light energy?
Define conservation of energy.
What is the principle that the total energy in a closed system remains consistent?
What type energy do fossil fuels store?
What is Chemical energy.
Define Combustion.
What is a chemical process where a substance reacts with oxygen to give off heat?
Define power.
What is work is done or energy is transferred?
What type of energy do plants convert?
What is solar into chemical energy?
Define work.
What is a transfer of energy where a force is applied to an object and the object moves?
Define gravitational potential energy.
What is the energy an object has due to its position in a gravitational field?
At what point does a pendulum have the most kinetic energy?
What is at the lowest point?
What type of energy do we get from the sun?
What is Solar energy?