Energy Efficiency
The type of windows that are most energy efficient are _________________________.
What is double-paned?
What is potential energy?
On a roller coaster, gravitational potential energy (GPE) is the greatest at which point?
What is the top of the first (highest hill)?
If you are trying to start a fire by rubbing 2 sticks together, you are more likely to start one if you rub the sticks _________________.
When a radio is plugged in and turned on _______________ energy is converted to _______________ energy.
What is electrical to sound?
The type of lightbulbs that are most efficient are _________________.
What are LED bulbs?
Energy of movement is what type of energy?
What is kinetic energy?
High mass and high height will result in ______________________ potential energy?
greater/less
What is greater?
The Law of Conservation of Energy says that energy can neither be _________________ nor ___________________.
What is created nor destroyed?
When a toaster is plugged in and turned on, _____________________ energy is converted to ________________ energy.
What is electrical to heat (thermal)?
Most of the energy you use in your home is used for _________________________.
What is heating and cooling?
What is heat?
In the Driving a Nail experiment the steel cylinder drove the nail into the block faster than the aluminum one because it had more _________________.
What is mass?
Energy from the sun is transformed into this type of energy so that plants can produce their own food.
What is chemical energy?
The food we eat is ________________ energy that is transferred into mechanical energy that lets us do things.
What is chemical?
True or false? Planting trees or shrubs around your home can help you to save energy?
What is true?
Someone skating down a ramp is using this type of energy.
What is kinetic?
In the Driving a Nail experiment which had more energy the cylinder dropped through the short tube or the long tube?
What is the long tube?
Light, heat, sound, electrical, chemical, thermal, potential and kinetic are all types of _______________.
What is energy?
When a battery is used in a flashlight, the stored chemical energy from the battery is transformed into ______________ energy when the flashlight is turned on.
What is light?
Name 3 ways to improve energy efficiency in your home?
What are... have double paned windows, unplug electronics when not in use, have a programmable thermostat, have an energy audit, take shorter showers, use Energy Star appliances, turn down the heat when not at home or at night, use LED bulbs, plant trees around your house...
A battery has which type of energy?
What is potential energy?
GPE stands for ___________ _________ _________.
What is gravitational potential energy?
What is non-renewable?
A sign that energy has been transferred is that _______________ has been produced.
What is sound or heat?