Mechanical Energy
This type of energy includes the energy of motion and the energy of position.
What is mechanical energy?
This type of energy is most closely related to temperature.
What is thermal energy?
This type of energy is stored in food.
What is chemical energy?
This type of energy is used to power many devices in your home.
What is electrical energy?
This outer layer of the Earth is what we walk on and is broken into tectonic plates
What is the crust?
A moving car has this type of energy because it is in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This type of energy comes from charged particles.
What is electrical energy?
Plants produce and store chemical energy through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
A toaster uses electrical energy to make the wires inside it hot. What type of energy is produced as the toaster heats up?
What is thermal energy
It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for this to reach the Earth from the Sun
What is light?
A car sitting at the top of a hill has this kind of energy because of its position.
What is potential energy?
This type of energy is carried by electromagnetic waves; visible light is one example of this
What is electromagnetic radiation?
The chemical energy in this substance can be changed into energy that runs a car.
A battery stores energy that can later be used to power a flashlight. What type of energy is stored in the battery?
What is chemical energy?
This process occurs when liquid water heats up and turns into water vapor.
A car's mechanical energy includes these two types of energy.
What are kinetic and potential energy?
A battery contains this type of energy.
What is chemical potential energy?
The chemical energy stored in this sweet substance gives your body energy to move and work.
What is sugar?
A student turns on a flashlight. The battery's stored energy is converted into electrical energy, which then produces this type of energy that travels from the flashlight as waves.
What is electromagnetic energy
This term describes the average weather conditions in a specific region over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A roller coaster is moving downhill. What two forms of energy contribute to the mechanical energy it has at this moment?
What are kinetic and potential energy
A moving charged particle can have this type of energy because the particle is moving.
What is kinetic energy?
A plant uses sunlight to make and store sugar. Later, a person eats the plant and uses the stored energy to move. What three types of energy are used in this scenario?
(sun -> plant -> human in motion)
A scientist is studying two nuclear reactions. In Reaction A, nuclei are split apart. In Reaction B, nuclei are joined together. Which reaction is nuclear fission and which is nuclear fusion?
A, fission; B, fusion
He formulated the three laws of motion, including the idea that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?