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Vocabulary
Forms of energy
Energy Transformations
1000
Form of potential energy that is due to its height
What is gravitational potential
1000
If you and a friend are going down two different slides, but the slide your friend is on is 100 ft in the air and the one you are on is 50 feet, which one of you would have more potential energy?
What is your friend
1000
You run an experiment to see in the number of washers effects the amount of times a pendulum will swing until friction will eventually cause it to stop. What is the independent variable in this scenario?
What is number of washers
2000
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of energy
2000
A student is cold while she waits outside for the bus so she decides to rub her hands together. What form of energy is her mechanical energy being converted into?
What is heat/thermal energy
2000
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: eating an apple and then going to the gym to work out
What is chemical to mechanical and thermal
3000
Form of energy due to its motion
What is kinetic
3000
If a 6th grade student eats a pancake for breakfast and then walks to school. What form of energy was the pancake?
What is chemical
3000
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight
What is chemical to radiant/thermal
4000
Form of energy due to its position and shape
What is potential energy
4000
If you are riding a roller coaster what form of energy increases as you go up the roller coaster?
What is potential/gravitational potential energy
4000
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
What is mechanical to electrical
50000
when one form of energy converts into another form
What is energy transformation
50000
You and your brother are racing a toy car and a toy truck down a ramp at your house. Your brother picks the car because he loves to go fast. You predict that the truck will win down the ramp. Explain why your prediction would be right assuming they are going the same speed and there are no other factors or forces at work?
What is the truck has more mass and therefore more kinetic energy
50000
Trever wants his toy train to be able to make it up a hill but he does not know anything about potential and kinetic energy. Explain to Trever what he could do to to get his train up the hill. Hint: explain what he would have to do with the potential and kinetic energy
What is create a ramp to increase the potential energy which will convert to more kinetic energy when released giving it enough energy to get up the hill.