Energy Sources
Energy Types
Kinetic vs. Potential
Generating Electricity
Energy Transformation
100
A dam is an example of this source of energy?
What is hydropower?
100
Light, sunshine, and radio waves are examples of what kind of energy?
What is electromagnetic (radiant) energy?
100
The energy of a football after it is thrown is this.
What is kinetic energy?
100
Electricity is the movement of these.
What are electrons?
100
This states that when one type of energy transforms into another, no energy is created nor destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
200
Coal, oil, and natural gas are types of this kind of energy.
What is non-renewable?
200
The vibration and movement of molecules and atoms is this type of energy.
What is thermal (heat) energy?
200
The potential energy of a resting book would increase if you did this.
What is increase height or mass?
200
A device that has blades that produces rotational motion.
What is a turbine?
200
When food gives you energy to walk it is this transformation.
What is chemical to mechanical?
300
Energy created by burning trash, wood, and bark.
What is biomass?
300
Energy stored in bonds of atoms and molecules.
What is chemical energy?
300
The kinetic energy of a car would increase if you did this.
What is increase mass or velocity?
300
A magnet spinning inside a wire coil creates this.
What is electric current?
300
The loss of energy in machines is usually due to this.
What is friction?
400
Energy produced using the lava inside the Earth.
What is Geothermal Energy?
400
Energy of something turning, twisting, pushing, or pulling.
What is mechanical energy?
400
The point of a pendulum's swing when it has the most kinetic energy.
What is the bottom?
400
The two main types of turbines.
What are reaction and impulse?
400
When you turn on a flashlight it uses this energy transformation.
What is electrical to electromagnetic?
500
Fission and Fusion are examples of this.
What is Nuclear Energy?
500
This energy is usually less than other forms and is the movement of energy through substances in waves.
What is sound energy?
500
When a ball being juggled reaches its highest point it has this percent of kinetic and this percent of potential energy.
What is maximum potential energy?
500
The process a generator and turbine use to work together.
What is the turbine turns the magnet inside the coil to produce an electric current?
500
The example below that results from a loss of thermal energy: evaporation, condensation, melting, or boiling.
What is condensation?