Energy, Speed and Moving Objects
To do work or cause change.
The action of one object bumping into another.
What is collision?
A form of energy we can see.
What is light?
A device that changes the energy of motion into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
A device that contains a wheel with blades that rotate by the pressure of moving water, steam or air.
What is a turbine?
stored energy in an object
What is potential energy?
An energy source made from unstable elements, such as uranium.
What is nuclear fuel?
Energy that can be heard.
What is sound?
The flow of charged particles in the same direction.
What is an electric current?
Earth's greatest source of energy.
What is the Sun?
The distance an object moves in a specific amount of time.
What is speed?
To change from one type of an energy to another.
What is transform?
Device that stores chemical energy that can change into electric energy.
What is a battery?
A material that energy can easily flow through.
What is a conductor?
A substance produced by pressure and decaying organisms that is used for energy.
What is fossil fuel?
The energy of a moving object.
What is kinetic energy?
The transfer of thermal energy.
What is heat?
A liquid fossil fuel that can be burned to transfer energy..
What is Petroleum?
A material that stops the flow of electric current.
What is an insulator?
A solid fossil fuel that is burned to transfer energy.
What is coal?
To move from one object to another.
What is transfer?
Energy from the movement of water.
What is hydropower?
Energy created by pressure and heat underneath Earth's crust.
What is geothermal energy?
A fossil fuel gas that is burned for energy.
What is a natural gas?
An unstable element used by humans as an energy source.
What is Uranium?