Show:
Kinetic or Potential
Energy Sources
Name The Source
100
A ball rolling down a ramp.
What is kinetic?
100
Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park.
What is geothermal energy?
200
A rollercoaster just before the first drop.
What is potential energy?
200
Energy that comes from the heat inside the earth.
What is geothermal energy?
200
Hoover's Dam uses this to provide power.
What is hydropower?
300
What a rock loses as it falls.
What is energy?
300
Energy stored in food.
What is chemical energy?
300
A sailboat that has no motor.
What is wind power?
400
This has the ability to create forces or motion.
What is energy?
400
The use of the energy released from splitting atoms to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity.
What is nuclear energy?
400
Found deep in the earth and used to make fuels. Mostly consists of methane.
What is natural gas?
500
A piece of paper sitting on the edge of a table.
What is potential energy?
500
Energy that comes from the sun.
What is solar energy?
500
Name ten forms or sources of energy.
What are thermal, solar, radiant, hydropower, geothermal, nuclear, electrical, wind, chemical and mechanical?