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What is Energy?
Forms of Energy
Transformations and Conservation
Fossil Fuels
Miscellaneous
100
The ability to do work or cause change
What is energy?
100
The form of energy associated with the position and motion of an object
What is mechanical energy?
100
True or false: Most forms of energy can be transformed into other forms.
What is true?
100
Coal, petroleum, and natural gas
What are fossil fuels?
100
The unit of energy
What are joules?
200
Energy in motion
What is kinetic energy?
200
Mechanical Energy = ________ Energy + Kinetic Energy
What is potential?
200
When a form of energy is transformed into another form one time
What is a single transformation?
200
Where fossil fuels get their energy
What is the sun?
200
50 Joules + 30 Joules = 80 Joules is an example of what kind of energy?
What is mechanical energy?
300
Stored energy
What is potential energy?
300
The total potential and kinetic energy of the particles in an object
What is thermal energy?
300
When a series of (or multiple) transformations are needed to do work
What is multiple transformations?
300
Living things transform energy from the sun into this type of energy
What is chemical energy?
300
The most common type of energy transformation
What is the transfer from potential to kinetic energy?
400
Weight x Height = __________ _________ Energy
What is gravitational potential energy?
400
Energy that is stored in the chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together
What is chemical energy?
400
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
400
The process of burning fossil fuels
What is combustion?
400
Electrical energy can either be in one of what 2 forms?
What is potential and kinetic energy?
500
Potential energy associated with objects that can be stretched or compressed
What is elastic potential energy?
500
An example of this kind of energy is sunlight
What is electromagnetic energy?
500
States energy cannot be created or destroyed?
What is the law of conservation of energy?
500
Fossil fuels can be ___________ to release the chemical energy stored millions of years ago
What is burned?
500
How does electromagnetic energy travel?
What is in waves?