Forms of Energy
What energy is stored in the nucleus and released during nuclear reaction?
What is nuclear energy?
What is the transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object called?
What is heat?
What is the most basic device for making work easier?
What is simple machine?
Kinetic or potential? An object at rest
What is potential?
The ability to do work or cause change is called?
What is energy?
What energy is the motion, position or shape of an object?
What is mechanical energy?
What is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves called? This is the only form of heat transfer that does not require matter.
What is radiation?
What is a flat, sloped surface? Example: A ramp
What is an inclined plane?
Kinetic or potential? Object in motion.
Energy cannot be created nor _______ ?
What is destroyed?
What energy is the total kinetic and potential energy of the particles in an object?
What is thermal energy?
What type of heat transfers one particle of matter to another within an object or between two objects?
What is conduction?
What is a simple machine made of two connected objects that rotate about a common axis called?
What is wheel and axle?
Kinetic or potential? A person holding a ball to throw?
What is potential?
What is the lowest temperature possible?
What is absolute zero?
What is the form of energy that travels through space in waves (also known as radiant energy)?
What is electromagnetic energy?
What type of heat transfer that occurs only in fluids, such as water and air?
What is convection?
What is a rigid bar that is free to pivot, or rotate, on a fixed point?
What is lever?
Kinetic or potential? A person releasing a stretched spring.
What is kinetic?
When one form of energy is transformed to another, no energy is lost in the process is called?
What is law of conservation of energy?
What form of energy that is released or in motion?
What is kinetic energy?
What is the flow that creates a circular motion called?
What is convection current?
What is a machine that combines two or more simple machines?
What is compound machine?
What is potential?
What is the form of energy that can be transformed into other forms of energy?
What is energy transformation?