Types of Energy
Energy Conversions
KE vs PE
Water Cycle
Seasons & Currents
Weather
100
Type of energy from the Sun/lightbulbs. (answer is NOT radiation)
What is light/radiant energy? (thermal okay)
100
Flashlight: chemical -> electrical -> ___ -> thermal.
What is light/radiant?
100
Energy cannot be created or __.
What is destroyed?
100
Condensed water vapor that falls back to Earth (rain, snow, hail)
What is precipitation?
100
The reason for the seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth? (Uneven heating okay)
100
Areas of the same pressure.
What are isobars?
200
Heat energy.
What is thermal energy?
200
Toaster: electrical ->___ -> light
What is thermal?
200
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic (energy)?
200
Gas changing into a liquid, for example when clouds form.
What is condensation?
200
Season in the Southern Hemisphere when it's summer in the Northern Hem.
What is winter?
200
Type of front shown.
What is a cold front?
300
Energy stored in a stretched object like a rubber band or spring.
What is elastic energy?
300
Rubbing your hands together: mechanical -> __
What is thermal?
300
Stored energy.
What is potential (energy)?
300
Liquid changing into a gas due to increase in temperature or pressure.
What is evaporation?
300
Season in the Northern Hemisphere when it's spring in the Southern Hem.
What is fall/autumn?
300
Which type of pressure moves clockwise, occurs because cool air is denser and sinks?
High pressure
400
Energy stored in batteries and fuel.
What is chemical energy?
400
Plugging in a heater: __ -> thermal
What is electrical?
400
Is thermal energy a type of potential or kinetic energy? (No stealing points on this one)
What is kinetic?
400
Precipitation that reaches Earth's surface and flows over land into lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What is runoff?
400
Fast moving powerful winds in the upper atmosphere.
What are jet streams?
400
Type of pressure associated with storms, strong winds, and heavy rain/snow.
What is low pressure?
500
Energy stored in objects that are elevated/lifted up.
What is gravitational (potential) energy?
500
Melting ice in the sunlight: __ -> thermal
What is light/radiant?
500
Name TWO types of potential energy.
What are chemical, mechanical, elastic, electrical, nuclear, gravitational? (any two)
500
When water leaks into the soil from the ground and moves into rocks through cracks and pores. (*tough)
What is infiltration?
500
Deep currents are caused by three factors. Name one of them.
What is density, temperature or salinity?
500
Tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer? (weather balloon okay)