Just a Roller Coaster
Stored energy
What is potential energy?
Energy of Motion
What is Kinetic Energy?
Where most energy sources can be traced back to
What is the Sun?
The ability to do work
What is energy?
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed (changed from one form to another)
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Energy that depends on Mass, Gravity, & Height
What is potential energy?
What is Kinetic Energy?
The amount of Sun's Energy that is reflected back into Space
What is 30%?
The amount of Sun's Energy that is absorbed by land and the oceans
What is 51%?
Warm air rises, cool air falls is the principle of what?
Transfer of heat by Direct Contact
What is Conduction?
The correct name for 'Light Energy'
What is Radiant Energy?
Transfer of heat by movement of liquid or air
What is Convection?
Form of energy of moving particles, also called 'heat' energy
What is Thermal Energy?
Transfer of heat in the form of waves
What is Radiation?
Form of energy from moving parts such as an engine or body
What is Mechanical Energy?
Energy due to something being stretched
What is Elastic Energy?
Energy of a chemical reaction
What is Chemical Energy?
Energy due to a nuclear reaction (fusion/fission)
What is Nuclear Energy?
Energy of moving electrons
What is Electrical Energy?
Energy of gravity on an object
What is Gravitational Energy?
Forms of Energy that is transformed when you plug in a lamp
What is Electrical to Light?
Energy that travels in waves, we focused on the 'sound' part
What is Electromagnetic Energy?
Three forms of Energy that is transformed in a toaster
What is Electrical to Mechanical to Thermal?
The Sun's primary impact on the oceans
What is it heats the currents?