Types of Energy

Machines

Key Concepts

Vocabulary

Types of Energy

Potential and Kinetic Energy

100

_______ energy is Energy an object has because it is in motion.

A. Kinetic energy

B. Seismic energy

A. Kinetic Energy

100

______ are disturbances that carry energy from one place to another.

a. Crashes

B. Waves

100

Energy transferred through the ground.

A. Seismic Energy

B. Radiant Energy

A. Seismic Energy

100

_____ energy is the energy an object has because of movment of its parts and because of position of its parts

A. Mechanical

B. Chemical

A. Mechanical

100

Gravitational Potential energy is a type of ______ energy stored in an object because of its position relative to earth's surface.

A. Potential

B. Kinetic

A. Potential

200

______ energy is stored in the bonds between atoms.

A. Electric

B. Chemical

200

The distribution of radiant energy in space is called _____.

A. Magnetic Field

B. Electromagnetic field

200

Energy stored in and released from the nucleus of an atom.

A. nuclear energy

B. Radiant energy

A. nuclear energy

200

The energy carried by electromagnetic waves is _____ Energy.

A. Electomagnetic

B. Radiant

200

The energy that an electric current carries is a form of kinetic energy called _______ energy.

A. Radiant

B. Electric

300

Wind, coal, nuclear fuel pellets, Earth's interior, and the sum are sources of ______.

A. Light

B. Energy

300

Which electromagnetic wave is used by the computer to read a compact disc.

A. light waves

B. Infrared waves

300

Energy stored in the bonds between atoms

A. Chemical energy

B. nuclear Energy

A. Chemical energy

300

_____ energy carried by sound waves

A. Sound

B. Seismic

A. sound

300

The sum of potential energy and Kinetic Energy of objects is _____ energy.

A. Mechanical

B. Chemical

A. Mechanical

400

A drawback of fossil fuels is that they introduce harmful waste products such as sulfur and ______ into the environment.

A. Oxygen

B. Carbon Dioxide

400

Which electromagnetic wave transform radiant energy to electric energy?

A. Solar Waves

B. Infrared waves

A. Solar Waves

400

Energy carried by electromagnetic waves

A. chemical

B. Radiant energy

400

______ energy is tranferred by waves through the ground.

A. Seismic

B. Sound

A. Seismic

400

_______ Energy is stored and depends on the interaction of objects, particles, or atoms.

A. Potential

B. Kinetic

A. Potential Energy

500

Object such as wind turbine blades and particles such as molecules, ions, atoms, and electrons often have ______ energies.

A. Kinetic and Potential

B. Chemical and thermal

A. Kinetic and Potential

500

Thermal energy is emitted from a body as which form of electromagnetic waves?

A. Microwaves

B. Infrared waves

500

Geothermal plants must be build in places where _____ is ______ to the earth surface.

A. Molten rock is close

B. seismic rock is far

A. Molten rock is close

500

______ energy is stored in and released from the nucleus of atom.

A. nuclear

B. Thermal

A. nuclear

500

_______ energy is the sum of kinetic energy and potential energy of particles that make up an object.

A. Electric

B. Thermal