Vocabulary
Form of energy due to motion
What is kinetic energy?
A 6th grade student eats a pancake for breakfast and then walks to school. This type of energy was stored in the pancake.
What is chemical
This energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight
What is chemical to radiant/thermal/electrical?
This form of kinetic energy travels through visible waves.
What is light energy?
Form of energy due to its position and shape
What is potential energy?
This form of energy increases as you move up the lift hill of a roller coaster
What is potential/gravitational potential energy
This type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
What is mechanical to electrical?
This form of kinetic energy comes from the movement of electrons within a system.
What is electrical energy?
Newton states that energy cannot be created or destroyed in this law.
What is law of conservation of energy?
A student is cold while she waits outside for the bus so she decides to rub her hands together. Her mechanical energy being converted into this energy.
What is heat/thermal energy
One type of energy transforms into 2 different types in the following scenario. Identify all 3 types: eating an apple and then going to the gym to work out.
What is chemical to mechanical and thermal?
This form of potential energy is stored in the bonds of molecules.
What is chemical energy?
The term used when energy turns from one type to another within a system.
What is energy transformation?
You and a friend are going down two different slides. The slide your friend is on is 100 ft in the air and the one you are on is 50 feet. This person has more potential energy.
What is your friend
Ms. Kenny rides her favorite roller coaster at Dollywood: Thunderhead. Her energy transforms multiple times throughout the ride. This is true about her total energy.
What is it remains constant?
This form of kinetic energy comes from the motion of particles within an object.
What is thermal (heat) energy?
This energy stays the same at every part of a system.
What is total energy?
A lava lamp is a great example of a lot of the science ideas we have learned so far this year. Name 3 types of energy that can be found in a lava lamp.
What are electrical, thermal/heat, kinetic, potential, and light?
You run an experiment to see in the number of washers effects the amount of times a pendulum will swing until friction will eventually cause it to stop. What is the independent variable in this scenario?
What is number of washers?
This type of kinetic energy also travels in waves, but in waves we feel instead of see.
What is sound energy?