Kinetic/Potential Energy
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
Energy carried by the movement of electrons
What is electrical energy?
Light bulbs and candles give off this kind of energy
What is heat?
A material that lets heat or electricity travel through it easily
What is a conductor?
cars running on gasoline or burning fossil fuels is an example of what kind of energy
What is chemical energy?
The total kinetic and potential energy of an object
what is mechanical energy?
Energy an object has due to its motion, position or condition.
What is mechanical energy?
melting ice in your hand is an example of
What is conduction?
A material that does not let heat or electricity move through it easily
What is an insulator?
Lamps, computers, refrigerators use this type of energy
What is electrical energy?
The energy any object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Energy that is available from release from chemical reactions
What is chemcial energy?
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to light energy.
What is a lamp?
The transfer, or movement of heat between 2 objects that are touching.
What is conduction?
The type of material that conducts material well is
What is metal?
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position.
What is potential energy?
Energy stored in the way atoms are connected to each other.
What is chemical energy?
A ball sitting on top of a hill is what type of energy
What is potential energy?
The transfer of heat within a liquid or a gas
What is convection?
Heat moves naturaly from __________________ temperature to _____________________ temperature
What is higher to lower temperature?
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy is changed into this.
What is kinetic energy?
Energy of the movement of atoms and molecules (determines how active its atoms are)
What is thermal (heat) energy?
A hot air balloon functions using which transfer of heat?
What is convection?
the transfer of heat without matter to carry
what is radiation?
When you press the gas pedal on your car, gasoline from the car is used to make the car go fast. _____________________ energy is changed into _________________________ energy.
What is chemical and mechanial energy?