Types of potential energy
The higher you lift an object, the more of this type of potential energy it gains.
The energy of moving air that can turn wind turbines.
What is wind energy
This playground equipment stores elastic potential energy when compressed.
What is a spring or trampoline
Potential energy transforms into this when an object begins to fall.
What is kinetic energy
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars
A stretched rubber band stores this kind of potential energy.
What is elastic potential energy
This type of kinetic energy is associated with the random motion of particles in a substance and increases with temperature.
What is thermal energy
Water held behind a dam has potential energy due to this.
What is its height above the turbines?
The SI unit used to measure potential energy.
What is the joule
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis
This force must be overcome to lift an object and increase its gravitational potential energy.
What is gravity
The energy carried by moving electric charges in a wire.
What is electrical energy
A bow pulled back before releasing an arrow stores this type of energy.
What is elastic potential energy
This factor affects gravitational potential energy but not elastic potential energy.
What is mass
This is the largest organ in the human body
What is the skin
The formula for gravitational potential energy is mass × gravity × this.
What is height
This form of kinetic energy travels in waves and allows us to hear sounds.
What is sound energy
This type of potential energy is stored in chemical bonds and released during reactions.
What is chemical potential energy
A pendulum at its highest point has maximum potential energy and zero of this.
What is kinetic energy
The author of the play Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare