Forms of Energy
Conduction, Convection, or Radiation?
Transfers and Transformations
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
Type of energy found in light and x-rays
What is electromagnetic or radiant?
100
A pot sitting on a hot burner.
What is conduction
100
A newton's cradle
What is energy transfer?
100
The sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of the particles in an object.
What is thermal energy?
100
Types of energy carried by waves.
What is sound and radiant?
200
Type of energy found in food.
What is chemical?
200
A person placing their hands over a warm fire.
What is radiation?
200
The sun warming your pillow is an example of this.
What is an energy transformation?
200
Law stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is the law of conservation of energy.
200
Type of energy a book has when on the top shelf.
What is gravitational potential energy.
300
Energy found in a moving object.
What is kinetic energy?
300
Putting wet shoes on a floor vent to dry them faster.
What is convection?
300
Cue ball hitting the 8 ball.
What is energy transfer
300
The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a material.
What is temperature?
300
The increase in volume of a material because its temperature increases.
What is thermal expansion?
400
Type of energy found in a bell ringing.
What is sound energy?
400
Picking up a hot cup of coffee
What is conduction?
400
What types of energy are involved in the energy transformation of starting a car and beginning to drive.
What is chemical to mechanical and thermal
400
The change of state from a liquid to a gas.
What is vaporization?
400
When matter changes form but not its identity.
What is a change in state?
500
Type of energy found in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
500
Macaroni rising and falling in a pot of boiling water.
What is convection?
500
Types of energy involved in the transformation when you turn on the TV
What is electrical to radiant and sound
500
A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter.
What is a wave?
500
Theory that explains how particles move in matter.
What is the kinetic molecular theory?