Unit 3 Energy - Vocab Quiz

Match the following

• Gravitational Potential Energy

• Total amount of Kinetic and Potential energy in a SYSTEM

• Chemical Potential Energy

• Energy in Motion

• Kinetic Energy

• Energy stored above the Earth's Surface - Dependent on Height and Mass

• Mechanical Energy

• Sum of Kinetic and potential energy of the particles in an object

• Thermal Energy

• Example of this is includes Batteries, Food, and Firewood

Match the following

• Radiation

• Air, wood, styrofoam, plastic, and fiberglass

• Convection

• transfer of energy by the movement of heated particles.

• Specific Heat

• transfer of energy through electromagnetic waves.

• Insulator

• 1. transfer of energy through matter by direct contact of particles. 

• Conduction

• • the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material by 1 °C or K.

The rate at which work is done is ​ (a)  

• Power
• movement
• force
• momentum

A measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in an object

• Heat

• Thermal energy

• Temperature

• Cold

Energy can never be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms

• Law of conservation of thermodynamics

• Law of conservation of Energy

• Law of consecration of energy

• Law of conservation of heat

Match the following energy types with the correct response

• Radiant

• Energy comes from outlets and power plants

• Sound

• Energy most often used for communication

• Electrical

• Referred to as light or solar energy

• Nuclear

• Comes from releasing energy from the nucleus of an atom

• Electromagnetic

• Examples of this include cell phone, radio, satellite

The abscence of heat

• Thermal Energy

• Temperature

• time

• Cold

Which of the following is a conductor?

• Metal

• Wood

• Air

• Plastic