Energy
Types of Energy
Simple Machines
7.P.2 Vocab
Vocab
100
Thermal Energy
What is energy that comes from heat?
100
Potential Energy
What is stored energy?
100
Machine
What is a device that makes work easier by changing the size or direction of a force?
100
Electrical Energy
What is energy carried by an electric current?
100
Electric Current
What is the continuous flow of electric charges through a material?
200
Generator
What is a engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction?
200
Kinetic Energy
What is energy in motion?
200
Parallel Circuit
What is an electrical circuit in which the electricity flows in more than one direction?
200
Work
What is done when a force causes an object to move? formula: force*distance
200
Energy Transfer
What is the transfer of energy from one object or material to another?
300
Battery
What is a type of container that stores energy until it is needed?
300
Solar Energy
What is the type of energy when you have a limitless source of energy from the sun?
300
Compound Machine
What is a machine that consists of two or more simple machines?
300
Efficiency
What is the measure of how well the machine reduces friction?
300
Mechanical Advantage
What is the number of times you multiply force?
400
Law of Conservation of Energy
What is the law that states that energy can not be created or destroyed, and can only be changed into different forms?
400
Mechanical Energy
What is the sum of kinetic and potential energy?
400
Series Circuit
What is an electrical circuit in which the electricity flows in one path?
400
Power
What is the rate at which energy is transferred? formula: work/time
400
Electricity
What is a form of energy that is carried through wires and used to operate lights....etc.?
500
Energy
What is the ability to do work?
500
Biological Energy
What is the type of energy where chemical potentials produced and consumed by the countless reactions that take place within the compartments of living matter?
500
Ideal Mechanical Advantage
What is desired of the machine?
500
Chemical Reaction
What is a process in which substances change into new substances with different properties?
500
Green Energy
What is any sort of alternative energy that is produced with less negative impact on the environment?