Types of Energy
Transfer of Energy
Transfer of Energy 2
Vocabulary
100
Energy of Motion
What is Kinetic Energy
100
Explain the transformation that takes place when you rub your hands together. (_____ to _____)
What is mechanical to thermal
100

As the speed of an object moving decreases its kinetic energy will ______________________.

What is decrease

100

A description of what happens in a specific relationship under given conditions. Can be used to make predictions.

What is a scientific law

200

The type of stored energy that depends on position and mass

What is potential energy

200
The energy transformation that occur in a guitar. (______ to ______)
What is mechanical to sound
200
As the speed of a falling object increases, its potential energy will _____________________.
What is decrease
200

A well-supported explanation of nature that explains how things happen.

What is scientific theory

300

Type of energy that depends on the speed of molecules. We feel the different speed of molecules as different temperatures.

What is thermal or heat energy

300

The transformation of a book falling from table. (_____ to _____ to _____)

What is potential to kinetic to thermal or sound 

300
When you drop a book on the floor, what happens to its original potential energy?
What is the potential energy was transfered to kinetic and thermal energy
300

The factor that is deliberately manipulated or changed to be tested in an investigation.

What is independent variable?

400
Type of energy that depends on the flow of electrons
What is electrical energy
400

The energy transformations that occur in a camp fire. (______ to _______ and ________)

What is chemical to thermal and light (electromagnetic)

400

The energy transformations that occur in a television. (______ to _______ and______)

What is electrical to sound and light (electromagnetic)

400

The factor that changes as a result of manipulation and is measured for results.

What is dependent variable

500

Type of energy stored in bonds of atoms. The energy is transformed when the bonds are broken or formed through chemical reactions.

What is Chemical energy

500

The energy transformations that occur in a flashlight. (_____ to _____ and ______)

What is chemical to electrical to light (electromagnetic)

500
The energy transformations that occur in a nuclear power plant. (_____ to _____ to _____)
What is nuclear to thermal to electrical.
500

Scientific law that states energy can not be created of destroyed it can only be transferred or transformed.

What is the Law of Conservation of Energy