Kinetic/Potential Energy
CHALLENGE
Forms of Energy
Changes in Energy
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Challenge
More Energy
100
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
100
Energy carried by electricity.
What is electrical energy?
100
Solar panels collect electromagnetic energy from the Sun?
What is radiation?
100
This is a type of energy that travels in waves and can travel through empty space.
What is radiant energy?
100
Heat always flows
from something warmer to something cooler
200

A  (a push or pull) applied to an object which forces the object to move.

What is a Force?

200

Energy an object has due to its motion, position and mass.

What is mechanical energy?

200
The transfer of thermal through currents is called
What is convection
200
The distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
200

Currents in a pot of boiling water are an example of

What is convection

300
The energy any object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
Energy formed when an atom splits apart or when two atoms join to form one.
What is nuclear energy?
300
This is an example of electrical energy being changed to radiant energy.
What is a lamp?
300

What ways are thermal energy transferred?

radiation, conduction, and convection

300

The sun heating the Earth is an example of

What is radiation

400
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position.
What is potential energy?
400
Energy stored in the way atoms are connected to each other.
What is chemical energy?
400
This is an example of radiant energy being changed to thermal energy.
What are solar panels?
400
It is not true that conductors transfer energy easy
FALSE
400

Heat is transferred through a solid by

What is conduction

500
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy is changed into this.
What is Kinetic Energy?
500
Energy of the movement of atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
500
The transfer of thermal energy through direct contact is called..
What is Conduction
500

This object can take visible white light and separate it into the colors of the spectrum.

What is prism?

500

When molecules are heated up, they

what is speed up