Forms of Energy
Vocabulary
Energy Conversions
Insulator/conductor
Electric Circuits
100

This form of energy can be seen by the human eye.

What is light energy?

100

The ability to do work and can change matter

What is energy?

100

The type of energy conversion involved in playing a guitar.  

What is mechanical energy to sound energy? 

100

This insulating material used to make the covers on most household electrical plugs.

 What is plastic?

100

The 3 parts that make up a simple circuit

What are wires, battery and bulb?

200

This is the of energy that is produced by vibrations

What is sound energy?

200

The instrument used to measure heat?

What is a thermometer?

200

The type of energy conversion in using a toaster to make toast

What is electrical energy to thermal energy?

200

This is the type of matter that good conductors are made of?

What is metal?

200

The source of energy in a simple circuit.

What is a battery? 

300

This is the type of energy that involves motion and movement of objects.

What is mechanical energy?

300

A path along which electric charges flow.

What is a circuit? 

300

The type of energy conversion in using a cell phone.  

What is an example of electrical energy to light and sound energy.

300

This type of material allows energy such as heat or electricity to pass through them easily

What are conductors? 

300

The name given to the closed path that an electric current follows.

What is a circuit?

400

This is the type of energy that involves the movement of charged particles in a circuit.

What is electrical energy?

400

The type of circuit when a wire is disconnected. 

What is an open circuit?

400

The type of energy conversion in wind mills or wind turbines.

What is mechanical energy to electrical energy.

400

This type of material does not allow energy such as electricity to pass through it easily?

What is an insulator? 

400

A load commonly used to indicate whether or not a circuit is closed.  

What is a bulb? 

500

This is the type of energy that involves the movement of molecules in matter

What is thermal energy?

500

The type of circuit in which the bulb glows. 

What is a closed circuit?

500

The type of energy conversion used in solar panels 

What is light energy to electrical energy

500

These are two types of energy that can pass easily through conductors.

What are heat and electricity?

500

The type material that is used to cover electric plugs and wires. 

What are insulators?