Parts of an Atom
Forces
Fields
Energy
Vocabulary
100

The center of an atom.

What is a nucleus?

100

This a push or a pull.

What is force?

100

The region in space around an object in which other objects experience a force.

What is field?

100

The energy due to an objects position.

What is potential energy?

100

A form of heat transfer through direct contact.

What is conduction?

200

The positive subatomic particle of an atom.

What is a proton?

200

The force caused by an electric or magnetic field.

What is an electromagnetic force?

200

The 3 types of fields.

What are gravitational field, magnetic field, and electric field?

200

The energy of an object in motion.

What is kinetic energy?

200

A form of heat transfer between liquids and gasses.

What is convection?

300

The neutral subatomic particle of an atom.

What is a neutron?

300

The strongest of the four fundamental forces.

What is strong nuclear force?

300

The field around an object possessing mass; produces a force on other massive objects; affects electromagnetic radiation.

What is gravitational field?

300

Energy can't be created or destroyed, it can only change forms.

What is the law of conservation of energy.

300

A mechanical process where energy is transferred from one object to another be a force pushing a certain distance.

What is work?

400

The negative subatomic particle of an atom.

What is a electron?

400

The four fundamental forces.

What is gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear?

400

The field around a magnet or electromagnet; causes a force on other magnets, electromagnets, current-carrying wires, and magnetic materials.

What is a magnetic field?

400

Matter, Energy, and Intellligence

What are the three basic things that make up the universe.

400

The measure of how much matter is in a given substance.

What is mass?

500

The Father(s) of the Atom.

Who are Democritus and John Dalton?

500

The force of attraction between two objects due to their gravitational fields.

What is gravitational force?

500

The field around electric charges; produces a force on other charges present in the field.

What is an electric field?

500

The sum of all potential and kinetic energy.

What is mechanical energy?

500
An atom that has gained or lost one or more electrons and has acquired a net electric charge.

What is ion?