Energy Types
Energy stored because of its position
What is potential energy?
As the mass of an object moving at a given speed decreases, its kinetic energy does what?
What is decreases?
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy.
What is – energy can not be created or destroyed, but can be transformed from one form to another?
What is the energy transformation for lighting a match.
What is – light to heat?
A balloon floating in the air has more
_____ energy than a boulder at the top
Of a cliff.
What is – kinetic?
Energy an object has due to motion.
What is kinetic energy?
As the speed of a falling object increases,
its potential energy what
What is decreases?
The ability to cause change
What is energy?
What is the energy transformation
of turning on a light.
What is – electrical to light?
You can find an object's mechanical energy by adding together the object's.
What is – kinetic and potential energy?
Energy caused by moving electrons
What is electrical energy?
The faster an object moves the ______ kinetic energy it has.
What is more?
Energy created by vibrating particles
That create waves that travel through
Space and time.
What is – Light (Radiant) energy?
What is the energy transformation of burning a candle.
What is –chemical to light and heat?
What type of energy is in the foods you eat, and in the cells of your body.
What is – chemical?
The sum of energy an item has because of position and motion.
What is mechanical energy?
Gravitational potential energy depends on the _____ and ______ of the object.
What is height and mass?
A force that occurs when
2 surfaces rub against
each other .
What is friction?
What is the energy transformation of
A dam
What is – gravitational (potential)
To mechanical to electrical?
As a car skids to a stop, friction transforms kinetic energy to.
What is – thermal?
Energy caused by splitting an atoms' center
What is nuclear energy?
Two trucks have the same mass.
Which truck will have a greater
Amount of kinetic energy
What is – ?
Is stored energy in the bonds
Between the atoms in compounds.
What is – chemical energy?
What is the energy transformation
Of a nuclear power plant.
What is – nuclear to heat to
(kinetic) to Mechanical to electrical?
In every energy conversion,
some energy is always converted
to …
What is – thermal energy?