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Types of Energy
Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy
Question | Answer |
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What are the two main types of energy? | Potential Energy (PE) and Kinetic Energy (KE) |
What are the four examples of Potential Energy? | Gravitational, Stored Mechanical, Chemical and Nuclear |
What is the energy that's stored energy? | Potential Energy |
What energy in motion called? | Kinetic Energy |
What type of Potential Energy is the energy of place or position? | Gravitational |
A rock on the edge of a cliff is an example of which type of Potential Energy? | Gravitational |
What is the energy stored in an object called? | Stored Energy |
A stretched rubber band is an example of what type of Potential Energy? | Elastic Energy |
What kind of energy is stored in the bonds between atoms called? | Chemical Energy |
Gasoline for a car is an example of which type of Potential Energy? | Chemical Energy |
What kind of energy is stored in the nucleus of an atom? | Nuclear Energy |
What kind of Kinetic energy is of an object that's moving from one place to another called? | Mechanical Energy |
The ability to do work is called what? | Energy |
Electromagnetic energy that travels in transverse waves are called what? | Radiant Energy |
Light is an example of which type of Kinetic Energy? | Radiant |
The movement of molecules and atoms in a substance is called what? | Thermal Energy |
Boiling water is an example of which Kinetic Energy? | Thermal |
What is the movement of energy through substances in longitudinal waves called? | Sound Energy |
Someone whispering is an example of which Kinetic Energy? | Sound |
What type of Kinetic Energy is the movement of electrons called? | Electrical Energy |
What type of Kinetic energy is turning on a hair dryer after you plug it in called? | Electrical Energy |
What does MRS CENT G stand for? | Mechanical, Radiant, Sound, Chemical, Electrical, Nuclear, Thermal, Gravitational |
What two things does Potential Energy depend on? | Height and Weight |
The ____________ and _____________ the object is, the more PE it has. | Higher and more weight |
What two things does Kinetic energy depends on? | Speed and Mass |