Energy Types
This type of energy is stored in atomic nuclei and released during fission or fusion.
What is nuclear energy?
When energy moves from one object to another, it’s called this.
What is energy transfer?
This is the measure of the average kinetic energy of particles.
What is temperature?
The variable that is changed on purpose in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
A group of elements that work together to produce an output.
What is a system?
The energy of moving objects is called this.
What is kinetic energy?
Changing energy from one form to another is called this.
What is energy transformation?
This type of energy is based on the random motion of particles.
What is thermal energy?
The variable that responds to changes in the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
You’re holding a metal spoon in a pot of hot soup. After a few minutes, the spoon feels hot. What type of heat transfer is happening?
What is conduction?
This energy comes from the Sun and includes both light and heat.
What is solar energy?
Heat moving through direct contact is called this.
What is conduction?
Heat always moves from this kind of region to a cooler one.
What is a warmer region?
All parts of the experiment that are kept the same.
What is the control variable?
In a lava lamp, blobs of wax rise and fall due to changes in temperature. What type of heat transfer causes this motion?
What is convection?
Energy caused by the movement or position of an object.
What is mechanical energy?
Heat moving through fluids by motion is called this.
What is convection?
When ice melts in water, thermal energy moves from the water to the ice. This is an example of what?
What is energy transfer?
These are the requirements that must be met in a design solution.
What are criteria?
The Sun warms Earth’s surface even though space is a vacuum. What type of heat transfer allows this to happen?
What is radiation?
This energy is carried by light and other forms of radiation.
What is electromagnetic energy?
Heat moving through empty space is called this.
What is radiation?
The process of particles vibrating and transferring energy to surroundings is called this.
What is heat?
These are limitations like time or materials that affect a design.
What are constraints?
A wind turbine converts kinetic energy into electrical energy. What vocabulary term describes this process of changing energy from one form to another?
What is energy transformation?