Energy Transformation
What is the process of changing one form of energy into another?
Answer: What is energy transformation?
What does Earth's energy budget refer to?
Answer: What is the balance between incoming and outgoing energy?
What is the greenhouse effect?
Answer: What is the trapping of heat in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases?
What is a renewable resource?
Answer: What is a resource that can be replenished naturally?
Sound because it is caused by the movement of particles
Mechanical Energy
What type of energy is stored in food?
Answer: What is chemical energy?
What percentage of solar energy is absorbed by Earth's surface?
Answer: What is approximately 50%?
Name one greenhouse gas.
Answer: What is carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane
Give an example of a nonrenewable resource.
Answer: What is coal?
Energy produced by the splitting or combining of atoms
Nuclear Energy
When a battery powers a toy, what type of energy is being transformed into motion?
Answer: What is chemical to electrical energy? and finally if the toy is moving mechanical
Daily Double
What Is Kinetic Molecular Theory
The average kinetic energy of a gas particle depends on the temperature of the gas.
How do greenhouse gases affect Earth's temperature?
Answer: What is they increase the temperature?
What is one advantage of using renewable energy?
Answer: What is it reduces pollution?
Energy traveling as elections through a conductor
Electric Energy
What is the energy transformation that occurs in solar panels?
Answer: What is solar energy to electrical energy?
What happens to the energy that is reflected back into space?
Answer: What is it does not contribute to warming the planet?
What human activity contributes most to the increase of greenhouse gases?
Answer: What is burning fossil fuels?
Name a renewable energy source.
Answer: What is solar energy?
Energy stored in food
Chemical Energy
In photosynthesis, plants convert what type of energy into what type of energy?
Answer: What is Electromagnetic or radiant to chemical energy?
What term describes the heat energy produced by the Earth itself?
Answer: What is geothermal energy?
What is one major consequence of an enhanced greenhouse effect?
Answer: What is climate change. double points for more severe weather events.
What is the main difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?
Answer: What is renewable can be replenished within a human lifetime
Energy traveling in waves like visible light or x-rays
Answer: What is solar energy?