Energy Transformations
Burning a candle.
Chemical energy -> thermal energy + radiant energy
When energy changes from one form to another.
Transformed
What is the process of saving up or storing energy?
Potential energy.
Energy that has the ability to fall; this type of energy increases the higher up you go.
Gravitational potential energy.
Energy is defined as _________.
The ability to change or produce changes in other objects
Using a hot plate to boil water.
Electrical energy -> thermal energy
This happens when energy moves from one object to the next
transferred
What is the process of spending energy or energy in motion.
Kinetic energy.
"You can burn it or you can eat it."
Chemical energy.
List the renewable resources (list at least 3 out of the 5 possibilities.)
Biomass, hydropower, geothermal, wind and solar.
A hungry football player eating a large sandwich to use the food for energy.
Chemical energy -> mechanical energy
This happens when energy changes its position.
transported
A heavy vase sitting on a table has this type of energy.
(Gravitational) potential energy.
This type of energy is generated by a force - a push or a pull causing an object to move.
Mechanical energy.
List the Non-Renewable resources (list at least 3 out of the 5 possibilities.)
Petroleum, coal, natural gas, uranium and propane.
Using a solar-powered calculator.
Radiant energy -> electrical energy ->light energy
When energy is transferred or transformed into energy that CANNOT be used by an object (or isn't useful to the object) it has ____________.
degraded, degradation of energy
A person running down the sidewalk has this type of energy.
(Mechanical) kinetic energy.
An atom splitting is this type of energy.
Nuclear energy.
Define gravity.
The force of attraction between all objects in the universe.
A solar panel on the roof of a building used to heat and cool the building.
Radiant energy -> electrical energy
When you compare how much energy is used to what is degraded you explain how _____________ an object's energy usage is. A CFL bulb is 75% more this than an incandescent light bulb.
efficient
A person that has just jumped from an airplane has this type of energy.
(Gravitational) potential and kinetic energy.
The sun is an example of this type of energy.
Thermal, Radiant, or Nuclear
List the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Energy can be not be created or destroyed.