Vocabulary
Forms of energy
Energy Transformations
Energy Transformations 2
Grab Bag
100
Form of energy due to its motion
What is kinetic
100
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
100
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight
What is chemical to radiant/thermal
100
List the energy transfers for photosynthesis.
What is Solar‐> chemical‐> kinetic
100
True or false: you cannot destroy energy.
What is true?
200
Form of energy due to its position and mass
What is potential energy?
200
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
200
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
What is mechanical to electrical
200
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to radiant energy.
What is a lamp?
200
True or false: you can create energy.
What is false?
300
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of energy
300
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
300
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
300
When a stretched rubber band is released, _______ energy transfers to _________ energy.
What is potential, kinetic?
300
These two things affect gravitational potential energy.
What is height and weight?
400
when one form of energy converts into another form
What is energy transformation
400
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
400
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 get his train up the hill.
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.
400
As a pendulum reaches its highest point, the energy has transferred from ______ to ______.
What is kinetic to potential?
400
With thermal energy, the faster the particles move, the ______ the temperature.
What is higher?
500
Form of potential energy that is due to its height
What is gravitational potential
500
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
500
You run an experiment to see if the number of washers effects the number of times a pendulum will swing. What is the independent variable in this scenario? The number of washers or the number of times the pendulum swings. 
What is number of washers
500
A cell phone demonstrates these 5 energies.
What is chemical, electrical, radiant, sound and thermal?
500
This form of energy can be potential and kinetic.
What is mechanical energy?