Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
Energy Transformations Part 1
Energy Transformations Part 2
Energy Transformations Part 3
100
Form of energy due to its motion
What is kinetic
100
Form of energy associated with the average kinetic energy of atoms or molecules.

What is thermal or heat energy.

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 unit does energy have?

What is Joule.

100

What form of energy is a battery?

What is chemical energy.

200

Form of energy due to its position

What is potential energy

200

Form of energy that travels in waves by vibrating molecules in a medium.

What is sound energy.

200
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
200

What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight

What is chemical to light energy.

200
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
What is mechanical to electrical
300

Form of energy associated with the making and breaking of chemical bonds.

What is chemical energy

300

Form of energy associated with the flow of electrons through wires or other conducting materials.

What is electrical energy.

300

What energy transformation occurs when a telephone rings?

What is electrical to sound 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

What type of energy transformation in used in an iron?

What is electrical to thermal.

400
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of energy
400
Form of energy that binds the nucleus of an atom together.

What is nuclear energy.

400

What type of energy transformation occurs when water flows over a hydroelectric dam?

What is kinetic to electric energy.

400

What type of energy transformation occurs when a candle is lit?

What is chemical to light (or heat)

400

What type of energy transformation is used when using a mixer to prepare cake batter.

What is electrical to mechanical (kinetic).

500

Form of potential energy that is due to its height

What is gravitational potential

500

Form of energy made from electrical and magnetic waves and packets of energy called photons.

What is electromagnetic energy.

500

In Photosynthesis, plants convert ____ energy to ______ energy.

What is light to chemical.

500

What type of energy transformation occurs in the following: bending a glow stick causes a chamber inside to break releasing a substance that mixes with other substances and causes the glow stick to glow.

What is chemical to light energy.

500

If you are riding a roller coaster what form of energy is the highest at the bottom of the hill?

What is kinetic energy