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What is Energy?
What is Energy 2?
Forms
of Energy
Forms of Energy 2
Energy Transformations
100
The ability to do work or cause change is called
What is energy
100

Energy that is stored is called

What is potential energy?

100
The form of energy associated with the motion, position, or shape of an object is
What is mechanical energy
100

A reaction that occurs when the nuclei of atoms fuse, or join together is known as

What is nuclear fusion?

100
The energy of electric charges is called
What is electrical energy
200
When you do work on an object some of your energy is _______________ to that object
What is transferred
200
this type of energy of an object is equal to the work done to lift it to that height. This is called
What is gravitational potential energy
200
You can find an object's mechanical energy by adding together the object's
What is kinetic and potential energy
200
Nucleus fusion reactions occur constantly in the
What is the sun
200
The light you see is one type of
What is electromagnetic energy
300

The rate at which energy is transferred is called ____.

What is power?

300

Energy that is associated with objects that can be compressed or stretched is called

What is elastic potential energy

300
An object with mechanical energy can do ________ on another object
What is work
300

The unit for measuring the rate at which energy is used

What is a Watt?

300
What type of energy is in the foods you eat, in the matches you use to light a candle and in the cells of your body
What is chemical energy
400

Name the two basic types of energy

What are potential and kinetic energy?

400

Work is the transfer of energy.

How are work and energy related?

400

All objects are made up of particles called

What is atoms

400
A type of a nuclear reaction that occurs when a nucleus splits is called a
What is nuclear fission
400
According to this law, energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of energy
500
how do you calculate kinetic energy?
What is 1/2 x mass x speed squared
500

Energy and work are measured in this unit.

What is a joule?

500

A type of potential energy called_______ is stored in the nucleus of an atom. It is released during a _________reaction.

What is nuclear energy?

500

The total kinetic and potential energy of the particles in an object are called

What is thermal energy?

500

Using a hair dryer, an iron, an electric oven, a toaster, etc. 

What is an example of transforming electric energy to thermal energy?