Energy

100

Energy stored in an object

What is potential energy?

100

Energy of a moving object

What is kinetic energy?

100

The ability to do work

What is energy?

100

A poor conductor of heat

What is an insulator?

100

These vibrate when a substance is heated

What is a particle?

200

A when the blades of this object turns it helps to produce electricity?

What is a turbine?

200

Energy present in foods and fuels

What is chemical potential energy?

200

Every time energy is transformed from one type to another, some heat energy is lost to the surrounds

What is wasted energy?

200

The chemical energy in a torch is transferred into this useful energy

What is light energy?

200

the particles in this are close together

What is a solid?

300

Energy stored at the centre of atoms

What is nuclear energy?

300

Energy cannot be created or destroyed

What is the Law of the Conservation of Energy?

300

The vibration and movements of the atoms and molecules within substances

What is heat or thermal energy?

300

the movement of electrons

What is electrical energy?

300

The area that a pendulum covers as it swings

What is a period?

400

A measure of an objects ability to provide useful energy

What is efficiency?

400

the unit used to measure amounts of energy

What is a Joule?

400

The movement of heat in liquids

What is convection?

400

A battery contains this type of energy

What is chemical potential energy?

400

This is usually represented as a percentage

What is efficiency?

500

Huge magnets inside rotate to produce electricity

What is a generator?

500

Coal, oil and natural gas

What are fossil fuels?

500

Compressed springs and stretched rubber bands store this

What is elastic potential energy?

500

Electromagnetic energy travelling in transverse waves

What is radiant energy?

500

Most electrical energy in Australia is produced by this

What is a coal burning power station?