Name the Natural Resource
Set up solar panels
What is sunlight?
True or False: Some energy sources are more packed with energy than others.
What is true?
A car gets energy from...
What is gasoline?
What is false? Dominoes have to be set up high in order to have potential energy for a chain reaction.
This can be seen in cities as "smog."
What is air pollution?
Build a dam on a river
What is water?
True or False: A swing can go higher than the level from which it was dropped.
What is false? A swing cannot go higher than where it started because it does not gain energy as it swings.
When you move your body you get energy from...
What is food?
True or False: Larger objects have more potential energy than smaller objects.
What is true? Smaller objects do have less energy than larger objects, however, smaller objects can be used to knock down or move slightly larger objects. (like stair-steps)
Give 2 examples of electrical energy that you use daily.
What is air conditioning, microwave, TV, phone charging, etc.? (any answer that must be plugged in for electrical energy is correct)
Build tall turbines (windmills)
What is wind?
True or False: The taller the hill, the more energy in the roller-coaster and the faster it travels.
What is true? Remember though that all the following hills have to be shorter than the first.
A flashlight gets energy from...
What is a battery?
Tell how energy be stored in a domino.
How can the domino be set upright? (energy due to height)
True or false: A ceiling fan and a cash register would stop working during a short power outage.
What is true? Ceiling fans and cash registers are powered by electricity.
Cut down trees
What is wood?
This is the most common source of energy used by towns and cities today.
What are burnable fuels? (coal, fossil fuels, etc.)
A ball rolling down a ramp gets energy from...
What is height or gravity?
Tell how energy can be stored in a ball.
True or False: A cell phone and a faucet would stop working during a short power outage.
What is false? Cell phones and faucets should have enough energy to continue working until the power comes back on.
Dig it out of the ground
What is coal?
This energy source has to be burned to release its energy.
What is coal?
A rubber-band squeezing a watermelon gets its energy from...
What is stretching of elastic?
Explain how hills and rubber-bands are similar.
They both can store energy. The higher the hill and the tighter the rubber-band, the more energy it has. Both have potential energy.
Electrical energy is different from other forms of energy in this way.
How it needs a circuit or pathway and it can be turned on and off?