Identifying Energy and Energy Transformations

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An iron heats up to iron clothes

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electrical to thermal energy

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Speakers playing music

Back

electrical energy to sound energy

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A car uses gasoline to move forward. What type of energy conversion occurs?

Back

chemical energy to kinetic energy

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Police siren plays loudly. Classify the energy transformation involved: light to electrical energy, kinetic to potential energy, sound to electrical energy, electrical to sound energy.

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electrical to sound energy

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Roller coaster goes down a hill

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potential to kinetic energy

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Roller coaster going up a hill

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kinetic to potential energy

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An electric stove heats a pan to make pancakes

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electrical to thermal energy

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Radioactive matter heats water into steam at a nuclear plant. What type of energy conversion occurs? Options: nuclear to chemical energy, nuclear to thermal energy, thermal to nuclear energy, radiant to electrical energy

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nuclear to thermal energy

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The rock on high on the cliff has lots of this kind of energy

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potential energy

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kinetic energy is turned into ________ energy when a ball is tossed up

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potential