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Energy
Kinetic Energy
Potential Energy
Conserving Energy
Potluck
100
Energy
What is the ability to cause change?
100
Objects in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
100
Energy that is stored.
What is potential energy?
100
James Joule
Who described the Law of Conservation of Energy?
100
1840
What year did Joule state the Law of Conservation of Energy?
200
Energos
What is the ancient Greek word for energy?
200
The mass and speed of an object.
What does the amount of kinetic energy depend on?
200
She has the ability to move.
Why does a skier at the top of a hill have potential energy?
200
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
200
When two objects collide with one another.
What is the transfer of kinetic energy?
300
Fat
What is the form your body stores most of its energy?
300
The higher speed train would have more kinetic energy.
How would the kinetic energy of 2 trains compare if they had the same mass?
300
Stored potential energy when needed.
What is water you poured into a bottle and taken to baseball practice?
300
It never increases but only changes form.
When does the amount of energy in the universe increase?
300
Bowling and Dominoes.
What are 2 examples of transferring kinetic energy?
400
Energy Transformation
What is any change of energy from one form to another?
400
The car.
Which has more kinetic energy: a car or a bicyclist?
400
A pendulum and a swingset.
What are 2 examples of potential energy?
400
Plant with a vascular tissue that moves food, water and dissolved substances to cells throughout the plant. (TRICKY, TRICKY, MISS DEM!)
What is a vascular plant?
400
Electrical to thermal (using the stove) or chemical to thermal (food digesting in your body).
What are energy transformations?
500
Chemical, electrical, and thermal.
What are 3 different forms of energy?
500
The leopard is faster.
Why would a running leopard have more kinetic energy than a sleeping lion?
500
At the beginning and the end of the swing.
When is potential energy the greatest on a swing?
500
Small pores in the leaf surfaces surrounded by guard cells. (ANOTHER TRICKY ONE!)
What is the stomata of a plant?
500
As the first domino falls into the second, its kinetic energy is transferred to the second, which has stored potential energy.
How do dominoes transfer energy?