Sports Connection
Vocabulary
Energy Changes
Simulations
100

Hockey players use _______ from their bodies to hit the puck. 

What is force?

100

To change or move from one object to another

What is to transfer?

100

During a collision, energy is _________. 

What is transferred?

100

The device in the picture is called a ________.

What is a Newton's Cradle?

200

The harder an object is hit the ________ the object will travel.

What is farther?

200

The energy of motion.

What is kinetic energy?

200

Energy is transformed from _________ energy to kinetic energy as the ball moves downward.

What is potential?

200

In a Newton's Cradle, the middle sphere's don't move much because _________.

What is the enegy passes through them?

300

_________ energy is about to travel through the ball that is hit with the mallet.

What is kinetic?

300

To change from one type of energy to another.

What is to transform?

300

The ball becomes ________ when is collides with the ground.

What is compressed?

300

Safety engineers use ________ to understand what happens in a collision. 

What are models?

400

When the bat hits the softball, _______ energy is transferred to the surroundings.

What is sound energy?

400

To demonstrate or copy something, to make it easier to understand

What is to simulate?

400

The sound of the pins falling is the result of __________ energy being transformed into sound energy. 

What is kinetic?

400

Motion is a combonation of direction and ________. 

What is speed?

500

When the bat hits the softball energy transfer causes a ________ in motion.

What is a change?

500

The action of one object bumping into another object.

What is a collision?

500

Collisions transfer most of their kinetic energy to another object, but some is transformed into light, sound, or _________.

What is thermal (heat?)

500

The __________ an object moves, the more energy it has. 

What is faster?

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