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1. What two factors determine how much potential energy an object has?
2. Identify objects that have kinetic energy.
3. A ski lift carries a skier up a hill. What does the ski lift do for the skier?
4. What are disadvantages to using nuclear power as an energy source?
5. During energy transformations, energy is never
6. What is the reason that solar energy is not a primary source of energy for
generating electricity?
7. What two factors determine how much kinetic energy an object has?
8. An energy source that will eventually run out is called
9. What are examples of electrical energy?
10. ____________ energy is a form of energy an object has if it is moving.
11. ___________ is the ability to cause change.
12. Hydropower uses ____________ to generate electricity.
13. ________________ _______________ is the energy stored in an object due to its
position.
14. If an object absorbs light energy, it thermal energy _________________.
15. ______________ energy is the type of energy light has.
16. As energy transformations occur within a system, the total energy in the system
_______________ _______________.
17. A _________________ is a device that transforms kinetic energy into electrical
energy.
18. Identify examples of objects that have potential energy.
19. ___________________ energy is the energy of hot drinks.
20. On a hot day, beach sand is hotter than the ocean water because of differences in
__________________ ___________.
21. The thermal energy felt by standing around a campfire is from
22. The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance is its
23. Which phase change results from a loss of thermal energy?
24. Heat engines convert
25. Thermal energy moving from a warmer object to a cooler object is called
26. The movement of water being heated in a pot on a stove is an example of
27. The ability to do work is called
28. Energy is measured in
29. Stored energy is correctly termed
30. Moving energy is correctly terms
31. An example of chemical potential energy is the energy of
32. An example of gravitational potential energy is
33. An example of elastic potential energy is
34. The energy of a ball flying through the air is
35. The main type of energy of stereos and computers is
36. Mass times gravitational acceleration times height is the rule to calculate
37. ½ times mass times velocity squared is the rule to calculate
38. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed in any chemical reaction. It can only be
changed from one form to another.” This is known as
39. An energy transformation occurs when
40. An energy transfer occurs when
41. When heat from a stove is used to boil water in a sauce pan, this is an example of
42. Identify examples of convection.
43. Identify examples of thermal energy transfer.
44. __________________ is a measure of the average kinetic energy of all the
particles in an object.
45. ________________ is the transfer of energy in the form of electromagnetic
waves.
46. Thermal energy is the ______________ _______________ of the particles in a
material.
47. The transfer of energy through matter by the direct contact of particles is called
48. ________________ is the transfer of energy by the motion of heated particles in a
gas or liquid
49. If the particles in an object begin to move more quickly, their average kinetic
energy _______________ and the object’s temperature ___________.
50. _____________ is the thermal energy that flows from a material with a higher
temperature to one with a lower temperature.