Energy: General/Vocab, etc.
Types of Energy
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Energy Transfer
100

What law states that energy can neither be created or destroyed it can only be transformed



What is the law of conservation of energy? 

100

Types of energy a computer uses

What are:  electrical & mechanical energy?  

100

Define potential energy.

What is stored energy due to position or condition.  

100

What is the energy of motion called? 

What is kinetic energy? 

100

What are the three types of transfer of energy?

What are conduction, convection and radiation? 

200

What form of energy does the sun have?

What is radiant energy?  

200

What form of energy is generated between bonds of atoms and molecules?

What is chemical energy?

200

A rubber band has what energy?

What is elastic energy - either potential or active. 

200

What are three types of energy used when running?


What are chemical, kinetic, thermal, sound, mechanical.

200

What kind of heat transfer happens when you stub your toe?

What is conduction? 

300

In what unit is energy measured?

What are 'joules'? 

300

What types of energy do you use to speak?

 What are chemical, mechanical, sound.  

300

What type of energy does a car have when it is at the top of a hill? When it is coasting to the bottom? When it keeps driving after that?  

What are potential, kinetic, then kinetic/mechanical/chemical/electrical.  

300

 If you are climbing up, then diving off the high dive, what types of energy are you using?  

What are chemical, kinetic and gravitational energy? 

300

What energy is being converted/transferred when logs burn in a fireplace?  

What is chemical to thermal and radiant energy?  

400

The ability to do work?  

What is energy? 

400

What types of energy does a lightbulb use and create?  

What are electrical and radiant?

400

Does an object that is falling have potential energy?

An object which is falling, but has not yet reached the ground has kinetic energy because it is moving downwards, and potential energy because it is able to move downwards even further than already has.

400

What types of energy are involved in playing Cookie Clicker? 

What are electrical, sound, chemical and kinetic?

400

A metal spoon sits in soup and the spoon heats up. What type of heat transfer is this?

What is conduction?

500

What type of energy does the sun have? 

What is radiant energy? 

500

What is potential energy?

What is stored energy that depends on an object's mass and position, or its shape.

500

What type of energy is stored in a nucleus? 


What is nuclear potential energy?

500

What types of energy does a bird have and use when it is perched on a branch?  How about when it takes off and flies? 

What are potential and chemical.  What is kinetic?

500

What types of energy are involved when you walk into the cookie store and buy seventeen cookies and eat them all in two minutes and, over many years of this, get major diabetes and then die from a heart attack?

What are chemical, thermal, electrical and kinetic?  

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