Electric Circuits
The _______ provides the source of energy, storing it as chemical potential energy?
What is a battery?
After being pulled up the first hill, a roller coaster car moves only because of ______.
What is gravity?
Energy is always conserved, regardless of the complexity of the _____.
What is food web?
Throughout these processes, energy is either stored or transferred, demonstrating the _______ of energy.
What is conservation?
As electrical energy reaches the light bulb, it ______ into light and heat energy.
What is transforms?
At the top of the first hill, the roller coaster has the maximum ______.
_______ are plants and other organisms that use sunlight to make their own food through photosynthesis.
What are producers?
When an animal eats the plant, the stored energy is _____ to the animal.
What is transferred?
The light bulb glows, converting electrical energy into visible light and releasing some _____.
What is heat?
As the roller coaster descends, its potential energy transforms into ______.
What is kinetic energy?
_______ organisms like fungi and bacteria that break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil and recycling matter.
What is a decomposer?
In photosynthesis, sunlight is converted into _____ energy stored in plants as sugar or glucose.
What is chemical?
Throughout the circuit, energy is _______ as it continuously changes form to power the light bulb.
What is conserved?
As it climbs the next hill, kinetic energy transforms back into potential energy and ______ down.
What is slows?
Some energy is transferred in a food web to the environment in the form of _____.
What is heat?
The plant stores this chemical energy in the form of _____ until it needs to break them down for its own use.
What is sugar/glucose?
When the _____ is turned on, the battery's chemical potential energy transforms into electrical energy. Energy flows through the _____, moving from place to place within a circuit.
What is switch and wire?
At the bottom of the hill, potential energy has _____ into kinetic energy. Energy is ______ throughout the ride, constantly changing between potential and kinetic.
What is transformed and conserved?
Energy is _____ when animals consume plants or other animals? Energy from the Sun is ________ into chemical energy through photosynthesis in plants.
What is transferred and converted?
This energy is used to convert ________ and water into glucose and oxygen.
What is carbon dioxide?