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Vocabulary
Energy Basics
Sound, Light, Heat, and Electrical Energy
Friction
Energy at work
100
It is the ability to do work or cause a change.
What is energy?
100
A ball sitting at the top of a hill is an example of this type of energy.
What is potential (stored) energy?
100
A guitar string will produce this type of energy when it is plucked.
What is sound?
100
Friction will always produce this type of energy.
What is heat?
100
We get our energy from this type of reaction in our bodies.
What is chemical?
200
This type of energy is also called "stored" energy.
What is potential energy?
200
A car driving down the road is an example of this.
What is mechanical energy?
200
A microwave uses this type of energy to operate.
What is electrical?
200
We need friction between our feet and the floor in order to do this (it's how we get around).
What is walk?
200
A battery stores this type of energy.
What is electrical?
300
It is the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
A marble rolling across the floor is an example of this type of energy, also known as the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
You would produce this type of energy using a lamp.
What is light energy?
300
Ice has less friction than carpet because this is smooth and slippery.
What is the surface?
300
On a clear day, we get these two forms of energy from the sun.
What is light and heat?
400
This type of energy is created when potential and kinetic energy are working together at the same time.
What is mechanical energy?
400
The source of all energy on Earth comes from here.
What is the sun?
400
This type of energy is produced when we use an oven.
What is heat?
400
This is the reason we don't fall when we stand up.
What is friction?
400
A roller coaster uses this type of energy.
What is mechanical?
500
This force is the resistance between the surfaces of moving things.
What is friction?
500
Energy is neither created, nor destroyed. It just does this as it goes from one thing to another.
What is transfers or transforms?
500
Sound energy moves by these going through the air.
What are vibrations?
500
Friction is described as a ________ between objects.
What is resistance?
500
This kind of energy is reflected from the moon at night.
What is light energy?