Vocabulary
Forms of energy
Energy Transformations
Vocabulary 2
Concepts
100
Form of energy due to its motion
kinetic
100
If a 6th grade student eats a pancake for breakfast and then walks to school. What form of energy was the pancake?
Chemical energy
100
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight
chemical to light/thermal
100
That which is needed to do work or cause change
Energy
100
What is the relationship between speed and energy?
More speed, More energy. Less speed, Less Energy
200
Form of energy due to its position and shape
potential energy
200
If you are riding a roller coaster what form of energy increases as you go up the roller coaster?
Gravitational Potential energy
200
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
mechanical to electrical
200
What is an Electric Current
Flow of electrical energy through a circuit
200
What is required to make a circuit work?
It needs to be closed (not breaks/gaps/or insulators blocking the path), have a power source, and have a load (whatever is being powered.) Can have a switch. 
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300
Energy cannot be created or destroyed?
TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
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?
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
chemical to mechanical and thermal
300
What is the movement of energy from one object or material to another or from one form to another?
Energy Transfer
300
How can collision cause a change in motion?
When objects collide, the energy from one object’s motion will transfer to the other object. When objects collide, the energy from one object’s motion will transfer to the other object.
400
When one form of energy converts into another form
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?
The truck has more mass and therefore more kinetic energy
400
Maria wants to use the flat iron on her dress to make it nice and neatly. What energy transformation it occurs in this scenario?
electrical to thermal energy
400
What is energy that causes a change in temperature or materials?
Thermal/heat Energy
400
What is the difference between Motion and Speed?
Motion is a change in position or location. Speed is the RATE of motion.
500
Form of potential energy that is due to its height
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?
Yourself or Your friend
Your friend
500
Jose wants to save money from the high electric bill, so he started using solar panels in their home. What type of energy did Jose utilize?
Light/solar energy
500
What energy allows us to see?
Light energy
500
What is the primary factor affecting both speed and energy?
Mass