Energy and Work
Simple Machines
Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Random!
100

This is done when a force causes an object to move.

Work

100

This is the type of simple machine that the Egyptians used to build the pyramids.

Inclined plane

100

This is the type of energy that is used when an archer pulls back on a bowstring

Elastic

100

This is also known as Acoustic energy

Sound

100

Which Law of Motion states that an object at rest will stay at rest?

Newton's First Law

200

This type of energy is the energy of an object due to its position, shape, or condition.

Potential Energy

200

This type of simple machine is an inclined plane wound around a central cylinder.

Screw

200

This is the type of energy that happens when books fall off of a shelf

Gravitational

200

This is the type of energy used when I peddle my bicycle

Mechanical

200

This is the term that is used to measure an object's increase in speed and distance over time

Acceleration

300

This type of energy is the energy of an object due to the object's motion.

Kinetic Energy

300

This type of machine includes wheels and axles with a groove around the outside

Pulley
300

Food and it's calories are this type of potential energy

Chemical

300

This is also known as Radiant energy

Light

300

There are more of these in a bathtub than in a cup of water.

Molecules

400

Energy can neither be created nor ____________.

Destroyed

400

This type of machine is used to split things

Wedge

400

This is the type of energy that happens when a rubber band is stretched

Elastic

400

This is the type of energy that powers the city of Pittsburgh

Electrical

400

Thermal energy depends upon the amount of these that are moving

Atoms
500

Any _____________ in motion has Kinetic energy.

Matter

500

There are three classes of this type of machine

Lever

500

Gasoline is this type of potential energy

Chemical

500

This is the type of energy that is also known as Thermal energy

Heat
500

This is a series of simple machines strung together, such as in a Rube Goldberg device

Compound Machine