What is Energy
Energy Conversions
Conservation of Energy
Energy Resources
Vocab./Misc.
100
When a bat hits a baseball, what is transferred from the bat to the ball?
What is energy?
100
When you eat fruits and vegetables, what type of energy are you taking in?
What is CHEMICAL energy?
100
This is a force that opposes motion between 2 surfaces that are touching.
What is FRICTION?
100
Fossil Fuels are considered this type of resource.
What is a NONRENEWABLE resource?
100
the energy of motion
What is KINETIC ENERGY?
200
As a baseball flies through the air after being hit, what type of energy is transferred from the bat to the ball?
What is kinetic energy?
200
When electrical energy is changed to thermal energy, this takes place.
What is an ENERGY CONVERSION?
200
On a roller coaster, the potential energy is the greatest at this point.
What is "at the top of the first hill?"
200
Wind Energy is this type of resource.
What is a RENEWABLE resource?
200
the ability to do work
What is ENERGY?
300
An electric generator converts ________ energy into _____ energy.
What is KINETIC into ELECTRICAL energy?
300
An apple growing on a tree is an example of _________ energy converting into ____________ energy. Fill in the blanks.
What is LIGHT energy into CHEMICAL energy?
300
This is found when you compare the amount of energy before a conversion with the amount of energy after the conversion.
What is ENERGY EFFICIENCY?
300
Fossil Fuels are formed from this material or substance.
What is "from the remains of organisms that lived long ago?"
300
the energy an object has because of it's position
What is POTENTIAL ENERGY?
400
the energy caused by an object's vibrations
What is SOUND energy?
400
Any time an energy conversion takes place, some of the original energy is converted what type of energy?
What is THERMAL energy?
400
After an energy conversion, you end up with the same total amount of energy as the original amount of potential energy. This law explains this rule.
What is the LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY?
400
This is the formula for finding Kinetic Energy.
What is KE = mass x velocity, squared, divided by 2 (KE = mv2/2
400
the total energy of motion and position of an object
What is MECHANICAL ENERGY?
500
the energy of moving electrons
What is ELECTRICAL energy?
500
When you compare the amount of energy before a conversion with the amount of energy present after the conversion, this is found.
What is ENERGY EFFICIENCY?
500
All of the kinetic energy due to the random motion of the particles that make up an object
What is THERMAL energy?
500
This is the source of most of the energy on Earth.
What is the SUN?
500
the energy that is given to an object that is lifted
What is GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY?