Types of Energy
Renewable and Nonrenewable
Energy Conversions
Electricity
Circuits
100
What type of electricity comes from the sun?
What is solar energy?
100
This type of energy can be used over and over again and does not take a long time to replace.
What is Renewable energy?
100
When a resource is changed from one form to another, it is called an
What is energy conversion.
100
What is the movement of electrons called?
What is electricity?
100
A closed path for energy to flow through is called a...
What is circuit?
200
When you hear an opera singer, what type of energy are you experiencing?
What is sound energy?
200
This type of energy takes thousands of years to replace or once it is used, cannot be replaced.
What is nonrenewable resources?
200
What is the energy conversion for photosynthesis?
What is light energy--->chemical energy?
200
What materials allow electricity to flow easily through them?
What are conductors?
200
What type of circuit only has one path for energy to flow?
What is a series circuit?
300
What type of energy comes from the heat a fire gives off?
What is thermal energy?
300
This type of resource is made from the decayed remains of plants and animals that have been buried for many years.
What are fossil fuels?
300
What is the energy conversion for a hair dryer?
What is electrical energy--->thermal (heat) energy?
300
What materials do not allow electricity to flow easily through them?
What are insulators?
300
The light bulb in a circuit is considered what part?
What is load?
400
What kind of energy comes from the REARRANGING of atoms?
What is chemical energy?
400
This type of renewable energy comes from the movement of water.
What is hydropower?
400
What is the energy conversion for digesting your food?
What is chemical energy--->thermal (heat) energy OR chemical energy--->mechanical energy?
400
What type of electricity is stationary? Lightning is the most common form.
What is static electricity?
400
If a switch is open, what happens to the circuit?
What is it is broken and the energy will not flow?
500
What kind of energy comes from the heat from inside the Earth?
What is Geothermal Energy?
500
This type of energy comes from the changes in an atom's nucleus. Renewable or nonrenewable?
What is nuclear energy? Nonrenewable.
500
What is the energy conversion of a person riding a bicycle?
What is potential energy--->mechanical energy OR chemical energy--->mechanical energy?
500
The flow of electrons is called _______________.
What is Electric current?
500
In a parallel circuit, if you unscrew one light bulb, what happens to the other light bulb and why?
What is the light bulb will stay lit because there is more than one path for the energy to flow through.