TYPES
An apple in a tree has this type of energy.
What is potential energy / chemical energy?
Energy that an object possesses due to its motion.
What is Kinetic energy?
Chemical potential energy is converted to this when you eat lunch and then to jogging.
What is mechanical energy?
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
An electrical circuit must have a _______________ loop in order to have the current flow and light a lightbulb.
What is closed?
Kind of energy that makes a TV, computer, fan, and refrigerator work.
What is electrical energy?
Stored energy.
What is Potential energy?
As an apple falls from a tree, what can you say about its potential energy and kinetic energy?
What is potential energy decreases, and its kinetic energy increases?
Name 4 Alternative Forms of Energy
What are wind, geothermal, solar, and biomass?
This is the name given to materials that do not allow electricity to pass through them.
What are insulators?
The type of energy stored in a remote controlled car is what and where is it stored.
What is chemical energy stored in the battery?
A book laying on a desk.
What is potential energy?
Very loud sounds can sometimes break glass. What type of energy transformation does this represent?
What is sound energy changing into kinetic energy?
Examples of renewable energy sources.
What are wind, sun, water, biomass, biofuel, and geothermal energy sources?
When you hook up a battery to a light bulb, what flows through the wires from one pole of the battery to the other?
What are electrons?
The type of energy humans store in our body.
What is chemical energy?
When an a bike starts down a hill its __________ decreases and _______________ increases.
What potential energy / kinetic energy?
The energy conversion that takes place when someone starts a car.
What is potential chemical energy to mechanical, sound, light, and thermal energy?
Energy can never be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
These are items that would be needed to have a working simple electrical circuit.
What are wires, a power source, and a load (lightbulb)?
The energy an object has due to its position or motion
What is mechanical energy?
This increases the higher an object is raised.
What is GPE?
Friction in your car brakes, changes some mechanical energy to this.
What is thermal energy?
Electricity produced by water going over a dam.
What is Hydroelectric power?
Batteries in an electrical circuit must be connected this way to have the circuit work.
What is positive to negative?