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Energy Conversion Poster There are about half a dozen forms of energy that we know of. These include electromagnetic energy (light), nuclear energy (one example is nuclear fission that occurs in stars), thermal energy (heat), electrical energy (really another form of electromagnetic energy in the form of moving electrons), chemical energy (potential energy stored in chemicals like the sugars in food or the hydrocarbon molecules in fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas) and mechanical energy (the energy of machines like a lever or ramp). And they all fit within the two general categories of kinetic or potential energy. Remember kinetic energy is energy in motion or energy being spent and potential energy is energy being stored. An example is the sugars in food are a form of chemical energy that represent potential energy right before you eat it to fuel your energy needs for the day at school. Remember that the Law of Conservation of Energy says that energy can be transformed from one form to another, although also recall that much of the energy is converted to heat (thermal energy) in the conversion. On the back of this page make a colored poster showing the following energy conversions in the description below. Label each type of energy on your poster and draw arrows between each energy type. Draw the sun (label the type of energy that powers the sun), now draw sunlight radiating out from the sun (label this energy type), then draw an arrow to a apple tree (label the process that turns sun energy into food for plants on top of the arrow), label the type of energy produced in the apple tree. Now draw an arrow to a person. Now the person eats an apple from the tree, so label the type of energy the person receives. Now draw the person walking and label that type of energy. Finally, draw the person burning the wood from the apple tree to make a fire for keeping warm on a cold night outdoors. Label this type of energy. Here’s an example of a different energy conversion poster to see as an example. Don’t draw the example! Draw the description above!