Forms of Energy
the ability to cause change
What is energy?
energy due to motion
What is kinetic energy?
energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
movement of thermal energy form a region of higher temperature to a region of lower temperature
What is heat?
someone who studies life
Who is a biologist?
stored energy
What is potential energy
What is electric energy?
when energy moves from one object to another without changing form
What is an energy transfer?
What is temperature?
variable that you measure
What is the outcome variable?
stored energy due to an object that has mass and height
What is gravitational potential energy?
the sum of potential and kinetic energy in a system
What is mechanical energy?
What is an energy transformation?
transfer of thermal energy due to collisions between the particles in matter
What is conduction?
explains the how or why of a scientific phenomenon
What is a scientifc theory?
energy stored in and released from the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter
What is a wave?
When a solid changes state to a liquid
What is melting?
transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles from one part of a material to another
What is convection?
the final step of the scientific method
What is Conclusion?
energy contained in chemical bonds and transformed during a chemical reaction
What is chemical energy?
energy of waves of vibrating matter
What is sound energy?
When a gas changes state to a liquid
What is condensation?
transfer of thermal energy form one object to another by electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
someone who studies rocks
Who is a geologist?