The energy found stored in a banana, a hamburger, or even a bowl of soup
What is chemical energy?
100
Boiling potatoes and corned beef for St. Patrick's Day uses this form of heat transfer to cook your meal.
What is convection?
100
A shopping cart with a mass of 15kg moves through a store parking lot at a speed of 10m/s. This is the kinetic energy of that cart.
What is 750 Joules?
100
Nuclear, biomass, geothermal, and wind are all examples of energy sources that can be replaced as fast as they are used up, making them all members of this family of energy sources.
What are renewables?
100
Electricity is the movement of these subatomic particles from areas of high electrical potential to areas of low electrical potential.
What are electrons?
200
The law that states "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be changed from one form to another."
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
200
The particles inside matter speed up and move further away whenever they are given this form of energy, which can turn ice into water and water into steam.
What is thermal energy?
200
Superman punches a robot with a force of 300 Newtons. The robot flies a distance of 3,700 meters (the length of Manhattan). This is the amount of work Superman did in punching the robot.
What is 1,110,000 Joules?
200
This energy source is the byproduct of millions of years of heat and pressure compressing deceased organisms, mostly plants, into gaseous, liquid, and solid forms of combustible hydrocarbons.
What are fossil fuels?
200
V = I x R, the formula for the most useful equation in Electricity.
What is Ohm's Law?
300
The ability to do work or cause change in matter
What is energy?
300
Using a wool blanket on a cold day traps heat, keeping you warm. This makes the wool blanket a good example of this type of material, which absorbs and releases heat slowly -- trapping it, basically.
What is an insulator?
300
A leprechaun stands on top of a 4 meter ladder in one of the shops at Vinal Tech, tossing 1.2 kg pencil sharpeners at the other students. This is the gravitational potential energy of the pencil sharpeners before the leprechaun tosses them (assume the force of gravity, g, is 10 m/s)
What is 48 Joules?
300
The kinetic energy of the wind spins a turbine attached to a generator, converting the kinetic energy of the turbine into this form of energy.
What is electrical energy?
300
If you remove a resistor from this type of circuit, the other resistors in the circuit will be unaffected as current can travel along multiple paths.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
An example of this form of energy would be found by plugging in a laptop and letting it charge for a few hours.
What is electrical energy (electromagnetic energy)?
400
This is the transfer of thermal energy from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. It's also what you complain about during the summer in my classroom!
What is heat?
400
A trophy sitting in a trophy case has a mass of 8 kg. It is on the third shelf, about 2.5 meters off the floor. This is the gravitational potential energy of the trophy (assume the force of gravity, g, is equal to 10 m/s)
What is 200 Joules?
400
Through burning fossil fuels, humans produce chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. These can lead to air pollution, including the buildup of greenhouse gases and the creation of this form of precipitation, which is damaging to both wildlife and human structures.
What is acid rain?
400
A circuit has a resistance of 11 ohms and a voltage of 142V. This its current.
What is 12.9 amps?
500
As kinetic energy in an elevator increases, this form of energy decreases by an equal amount (assuming there's no friction, of course).
What is gravitational potential energy?
500
Compared to a copper pot, a glass baking dishes and plastic spatulas all have a higher value of this measurement, which determines how quickly a material absorbs thermal energy as heat.
What is specific heat?
500
A 450 kg giant godzilla gecko leaps from the side of a building, moving at a velocity of 6 m/s. This is its kinetic energy.
What is 8,100 Joules?
500
Nuclear energy today is produced mainly from this process, which splits atoms inside nuclear reactors to produce turbine-spinning steam.
What is nuclear fission?
500
Plugging more bulbs into this circuit won't lower the brightness of the other bulbs, since there's so many paths for electricity to follow.