Energy
Waves
Misc
Vocabulary
Potential or Kinetic?
100

What is the Earths main source of energy?

Solar

100

What kind of waves does the ocean move in?

Transverse Waves

100

How does light travel?

In a straight path.

100

Energy that is stored.

Potential

100

Holding a basketball.

Potential


200

If an ice cube gets heat energy what will happen?

It will melt

200

We use these waves to cook food.

Microwave

200

What do we get if we put something in the way of light?

A shadow

200

A wave that moves back and forth.

(Compression or Transverse)

Compression 

200

Jumping up and down.

Kinetic


300

If food gets energy from a microwave what will happen to it?

It will heat up

300

We feel this type of wave as heat. 

Infrared Wave 

300

Name something that vibrates.

speaker, guitar strings, etc...


300

A wave that moves in an up and down motion.


(Compression or Transverse)

Transverse

300

Riding a skateboard.

Kinetic

400

Name 2 items that use electrical energy.

TV, computer, hair dryer, phone charger

400

A high energy wave used in nuclear power plants.

Gamma Waves

400
Look at the board and draw how the light will reflect.

.

400

To move back and forth quickly.

Vibrate

400

Pulling back a catapult.

Potential

500

Besides walking, what are ways energy is used to move things?

swimming, flying, running....

500

We use this wave to see our bones.

X-ray

500

What would happen if you held the string on a cup phone and tried to talk into it?

There would be no sound because the string couldn't vibrate the sound through it.

500

When light hits an object and bounces off in a different direction. 

Reflection

500

Bouncing a ball.

Kinetic